Studies of Glass Jars and Figures (recto)
c. 1586
Artist, Italian, 1548 - 1608

Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and brown ink with brown wash on light tan laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 28.8 x 22.2 cm (11 5/16 x 8 3/4 in.)
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Accession
2007.111.81.a
Associated Artworks

Studies of Figures (verso)
Ambrogio Figino
1581
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(sale, Gerd Rosen, Berlin, 1 December 1959, no. 298). Herbert List [1903-1975], Munich, (Lugt 4063]; Ursula and Adolf Ratjen, Vaduz, for Wolfgang Ratjen; Wolfgang Ratjen, Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1965
Zeichnungen alter Meister aus deutschem Privatbesitz, Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Kunsthalle, Bremen; Graphische Sammlung, Stuttgart. Stuttgart, 1965, no. 19, pl. 12.
1977
Stiftung Ratjen. Italienische Zeichnungen des 16. - 18. Jahrhunderts, Graphische Sammlung, Munich; Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin; Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Kunstmuseum, Dusseldorf; Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart. Munich, 1977, no. 14.
1995
Fünfzig italienische Zeichnungen des 16. - 18. Jahrhunderts aus der Stiftung Ratjen, Vaduz, Liechtensteinischen Staatlichen Kunstsammlung, Vaduz, 1995, no. 11.
1996
Italian Drawings from the Ratjen Foundation, Vaduz. The Frick Collection, New York. Bern, 1996, no. 11.
2004
Pittori della realtà: Le Ragioni di una Rivoluzione da Foppa e Leonardo a Caravaggio e Ceruti. Museo civico Ala Ponzone, Cremona, and Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2004, 261 (entry by Linda Wolk-Simon).
2011
Italian Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1525-1835, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2011, no. 11.
Bibliography
1971
Ciardi, Roberto Paolo. "Addenda Figiniana" Arte Lombarda 16 (1971): 270-271, figs. 6, 10.
1987
Torrini, Annalisa Perissa. Disegni del Figino. Milan, 1987: 20, 22, 29, 31, 34-36, 195, figs. 109, 110.
1997
Ciardi, Roberto Paolo. "Figino, Giovanni Ambrogio." In Dizionario biografico degli Italiani. 47, Rome, 1997: 553.
2004
Pittori della Realtà: Le Ragioni di una Rivoluzione da Foppa e Leonardo a Caravaggio e Ceruit. Museo civico Ala Ponzone, Cremona, and Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Cremona, 2004: 260, 261.
Inscriptions
Verso, at lower left in graphite: 298
Wikidata ID
Q64534716