A Groundhog or Marmot with a Branch of Plums

Provenance

(sale, Sotheby's London, 13 December 1973, no. 23); Herbert List [1903-1975] (Lugt 4063), Munich; Ursula and Adolf Ratjen, Vaduz, for Wolfgang Ratjen; Wolfgang Ratjen [1943-1997], Vaduz and Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.

A Groundhog or Marmot with a Branch of Plums

Ligozzi, Jacopo

1605

Accession Number

2007.111.121

Medium

watercolor and ink with white gouache over traces of graphite on burnished laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 33 x 42.3 cm (13 x 16 5/8 in.) (paper edge slightly covered by the old mount)

Classification

Drawing

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Purchased as the Gift of Helen Porter and James T. Dyke