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Domenico Tintoretto

Venetian Soldiers Attacking Constantinople (recto), 1598/1605

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Medium

brush and tempers on dark brown paper (top and bottom left corners made up)

Dimensions

overall: 31.5 × 19.4 cm (12 3/8 × 7 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Purchased as the Gift of Alexander M. and Judith W. Laughlin

Accession Number

2007.111.175.a

Artists / Makers

Domenico Tintoretto (artist) Venetian, 1560 - 1635

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Provenance

Sohn-Rethel Collection, Rome. (Douwes Fine Art Ltd., London); Wolfgang Ratjen [1943-1997], Vaduz and Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.

Associated Names

Douwes Fine Art Ltd.
Sohn-Rethel Collection
Stiftung Ratjen

Exhibition History

1995: Fünfzig italienische Zeichnungen des 16. - 18. Jahrhunderts aus der Stiftung Ratjen, Vaduz. Liechtensteinischen Staatlichen Kunstsammlung, Vaduz. Bern, 1995, no. 8.

1996: Italian Drawings from the Ratjen Foundation, Vaduz. The Frick Collection, New York. Bern, 1996, no. 8.

2011: Italian Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1525-1835, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2011, no. 20.

2014: The Poetry of Light - La poesia della luce: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, Museo Correr, Venice, Venice, 2014 - 2015, no. 38.

2018: Drawing in Tintoretto's Venice, The Morgan Library & Museum, New York; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2018 - 2019, no. 62.

Bibliography

1926: Hadeln, Detlev, Freiherr von. Venezianische Zeichnungen der Spätrenaissance. Berlin, 1926: 26.

1944: Tietze, Hans, and Erika Tietze-Conrat. The Drawings of the Venetian Painters in the 15th and 16th Centuries. New York, 1944: 267, no. 1546, pl. CXXII, figs. 1-2.

1952: Meister, Peter Wilhelm. "Zu den Erwerbungen der Graphischen Sammlung." Jahrbuch der Hamburger Kunstsammlungen 2 (1952): 25.

1995: Lachenmann, David. Fünfzig italienische Zeichnungen des 16. - 18. Jahrhunderts aus der Stiftung Ratjen, Vaduz. Vaduz, 1995: no. 8.

1996: Lachenmann, David. Italian Drawings from the Ratjen Foundation, Vaduz. Exh. cat. The Frick Collection, New York. Bern, 1996: no. 8.

2001: Roettig, Petra, Annamarie Stefes, and Andreas Stolzenburg. Von Dürer bis Goya: 100 Meisterzeichnungen aus dem Kupferstichkabinett der Hamburger Kusnsthalle. Hamburger Kunsthalle. Hamburg, 2001: 42-43, under no. 16 (entry by Stolzenburg).

2008: Klemm, David, Hubertus Gassner, and Andreas Stolzenburg. Von Leonardo bis Piranesi: Italienische Zeichnungen von 1450 bis 1800 aus dem Kupferstichkabinett der Hamburger Kunsthalle. Hamburger Kunsthalle. Bremen, 2008: 124, 229 note 2, under no. 55 (entry by Klemm).

2009: Klemm, David. Italienische Zeichnungen 1450-1800. Die Sammlungen der Hamburger Kunsthalle Kupferstichkabinett, Bd. 2. 3 vols. Cologne, 2009, 1: 348, under no. 530.

2011: Italian Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection 1525-1835. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2011: 53-55.

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