The Generosity of Empress Pulcheria
1644
Artist, German, c. 1591 - 1671
Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and gray-brown ink with gray wash over black chalk on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 19.1 x 25 cm (7 1/2 x 9 13/16 in.)
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Accession
2007.111.165
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Princes of Liechtenstein, Vienna and Vaduz (Lugt 4398). Richard Tüngel (1892-1970), Ahrensburg, by 1966. Herbert List [1903-1975], Munich (Lugt 4063). Wolfgang Ratjen, Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1965
Zeichnungen alter Meister aus deutschem Privatbesitz, Kunsthalle, Hamburg, 1965, 21-22, no. 76, fig. 118.
1966
Deutsche Maler und Zeichner des 17. Jahrhunderts, Staatliche Museen Berlin 1966, 141-142, no. 205, fig. 203.
2010
German Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1580 - 1900, NGA, 2010: 34, no. 5.
Bibliography
1938
Thöne, Heinrich. "Der Maler Johann Christophorus Storer als Zeichner" Münchner Jahrbuch der bildenden Kunst 13 (1938/1939): 217, fig. 4, 231, no. 28.
1980
Bora, Giulio. "Alcuni disegni per incisioni lombarde del Cinque e Seicento." Rassegna di studi e di notizie 8 (1980): 116-117, fig. 18
1994
Bora, Giulio. Arte, apparati, emblemi a Milano al tempo di Cesare Monti, Le stanze del Cardinal Monti 1635-1650. La collezione ricomposta. Milan, 1994: 47, fig. 11.
2000
Appuhn-Radtke, Sibylle. Visuelle Medien im Dienst der Gesellschaft Jesu: Johann Christoph Storer (1620-1671) als Mahler der Katholischen Reform. Regensburg, 2000: 62, 63, fig. 19a.
2024
Bober, Jonathan. "Seventeenth-century Milanese drawings in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and some associated collections."Arte Lombarda 200-201, no. 1-2 (2024): 91, fig. 28.
Inscriptions
at lower left, brown ink, by another hand: Christ. Storer; on the mount at top right: Tüngel, IV 1973
Wikidata ID
Q64581896