Two Nude Children Lifting a Cudgel

Provenance

from an album belonging to Veuve Galippe (sale, de Vries, Amsterdam, 27-29 March 1923, lot 515, as Anton Raphael Mengs); Fritz Haussmann, Berlin; Carmen, Countess Finckenstein, Zurich and Ascona. Herbert List, Munich (not in Lugt); Wolfgang Ratjen, Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.

Two Nude Children Lifting a Cudgel

Batoni, Pompeo

c. 1748

Accession Number

2007.111.48

Medium

red chalk heightened with white chalk on paper washed ochre, partially squared for transfer in red chalk

Dimensions

sheet: 28 x 21 cm (11 x 8 1/4 in.)

Classification

Drawing

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Purchased as the Gift of Diane A. Nixon