ID: 700008195 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700008195	Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1

The Visitation (drawing (visual work); Theodor Rehbenitz (German painter and draftsman, 1791-1861) ...; 1820; J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, Calif...; 2009.70)

Note: The drawing is a wondrously finished and extensively inscribed modello for Rehbenitz's oil painting of The Visitation (Lübeck, Museum Behnhaus) that he executed in 1825 while living in Perugia. As indicated in his inscription, he made the modello in Rome in 1820. The proposed drawing is closely related to a less worked up cartoon for the painting also in the Lübeck museum, where most of the contents of Rehbenitz's studio are now housed. Another of his religious paintings in Lübeck, The Temptation of Christ, has an elaborate gold frame inscribed at the bottom with the appropriate Bible verse. The painting related to the proposed modello lacks such a frame, but the modello itself, with its elaborate, inscribed frame, indicates that he had intended to so frame the related painting. There are many changes among the painting, the proposed modello and the cartoon. Basically, all of these show the pregnant Mary meeting Elizabeth under a portico. Joseph waits outside at left, while at right, Zachariah pours over books in his study. The silvery tonality and incredible degree of detail in the pencil work encountered in the proposed modello can only call to mind the famed Meisterstiche (Master Prints) of Albrecht Dürer, especially St. Jerome in His Study. In comparing the proposed drawing with Dürer's famed print, one sees parallels in the upward view into the architecture, the amazing description of interior and exterior light, the theme of the scholar in contemplation, and the wonderfully textural and detailed depiction of natural elements. To the Nazarenes (the group of German artists living in Rome in the early 19th century who were devoted to reviving the "pure" Renaissance art of Raphael and Dürer), Dürer was their overarching ideal, combining unparalleled artistic mastery, the highest standards of workmanship, and profound piety in his life and art. This modello by Rehbenitz embodies the Nazarene worship of Dürer.

Titles:

The Visitation (preferred,C,U,RP,English-P,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

drawing (visual work) [300033973] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

modello [300100045]

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by function>)

Classifications:

drawings (preferred)

Creation Date: 1820

Creator Display:

Theodor Rehbenitz (German painter and draftsman, 1791-1861) [preferred,JPGM]

draftsman Rehbenitz, Theodor (German painter and draftsman, 1791-1861) Qualifier: undetermined [500007876]

Locations:

Current: J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, California, United States) [500115988] J. Paul Getty Trust, Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 2009.70

Other: Creation: Italia [1000080] Europe (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)

Display Materials: Graphite

	graphite (mineral) [300011098]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by composition>, inorganic material, mineral)

Dimensions: 22.4 x 14.1 cm (8 13/16 x 5 9/16 in.)

Cultures:

German (preferred)

General Subject:

religion and mythology (preferred)

Specific Subjects:

	Visitation of the Virgin Mary [901000359]
	.....((Life of the Virgin Mary, New Testament narratives, Christian iconography, Legend, Religion, Mythology)) (ICON)

Inscriptions: Recto: inscribed by the artist in pencil at the bottom U selig bist du, die du geglaubet hast:/Den es wird vollendet, was dir gesagt is von dem herrn. Ev. Lucas I 45. (And blessed art thou that hast believed, because those things shall be accomplished that were spoken to thee by the Lord.). Verso: inscribed in pencil at the bottom Theodor Rehbenitz, gn, and a28759

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
The Visitation	........ [JPGM,VP]
	........ J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)

Subject: ....... [JPGM,VP]

Note:
English	..... [JPGM]
	..... J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)