Baths of Titus with S. Maria Maggiore
Joseph Anton Koch
(German (born in Austria), 1768–1839)
1805–10
Medium/TechniquePen and ink on cream laid paper
DimensionsSheet: 23.8 × 33.8 cm (9 3/8 × 13 5/16 in.)
Credit LineJoseph F. McCrindle Endowment Fund for Drawings and Francis Welch Fund
Accession number2017.415
On View
Not on viewClassificationsDrawings
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ProvenanceChristian Heinrich Kohlrausch (b. 1777/80 - d. 1826), Hannover and Berlin; probably acquired from the Kohlrausch estate by Gustav Friedrich Konstantin Parthey (b. 1798 – d. 1872), Berlin and Rome [see note 1]. By 1926, Carl Heumann (Lugt 555b; b. 1886 - d.1945), Chemnitz; May 19-21, 1953, anonymous (probably Heumann estate) sale, Kunstkabinett R.N. Ketterer, Stuttgart, lot 737 [see note 2]. 1958, Ernst Jürgen Otto (Lugt 873b), Celle; November 3-4, 1958, Otto and others sale (auction 66), Karl and Faber, Munich, lot 326. May 11, 2016, anonymous sale, Dobiaschofsky, Bern, lot 1053, to Jörg Maaß Kunsthandel, Berlin; 2017, sold by Jörg Maaß to the MFA. (Accession Date: April 19, 2017)
NOTES
[1] The inscription on the verso, noting that the drawing came from the Kohlrausch estate, is initialed G.P., probably for Gustav Parthey. [2] Heumann lent the drawing to the exhibition of “Deutsch-Römische Malerei und Zeichnung, 1790-1830,” Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig, August 1 – October 31, 1926, cat. no. 187. It was consigned to Ketterer in 1953 with two other drawings from the Heumann collection. The Heumann collection sale would take place through Ketterer in 1956.
NOTES
[1] The inscription on the verso, noting that the drawing came from the Kohlrausch estate, is initialed G.P., probably for Gustav Parthey. [2] Heumann lent the drawing to the exhibition of “Deutsch-Römische Malerei und Zeichnung, 1790-1830,” Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig, August 1 – October 31, 1926, cat. no. 187. It was consigned to Ketterer in 1953 with two other drawings from the Heumann collection. The Heumann collection sale would take place through Ketterer in 1956.
Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal)
Unidentified artist, German, 16th century
Domenico Campagnola
mid-16th–late 16th century
