God the Father and the Holy Spirit Receiving the Body of Christ

Provenance

Jacques Petithory, Paris (not in Lugt). (sale, Nouveau Drouot, Paris, 1-2 March 1983, no. 42, as "attributed to Lodovico Carracci). Private collection, Zurich; Wolfgang Ratjen, Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.

God the Father and the Holy Spirit Receiving the Body of Christ

Cortese, Guglielmo

1660/1665

Accession Number

2007.111.59

Medium

red and black chalk with sanguine and gray wash, heightened with white gouache, on beige laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 40.2 x 29 cm (15 13/16 x 11 7/16 in.)

Classification

Drawing

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Patrons' Permanent Fund