Inscription
Signed with monogram on title page
Marks and Labels
C.F.G.R. Schwerdt; Huth
Provenance
Emperor Rudolph of Austria; Secretarius Heinrich Hagen, Vienna, 1611.[1] Count Emanuel Maria Joseph von Arco, Munich, 1751. Graf von Seinsheim, canon of Salzburg and Speyer, 1753. Master stonemason Rüpfel, Munich, c. 1830. Joseph Anton Niggl [1792 - 1842], Markt Tölz. Karl August von Brentano [1817 - 1896], Augsburg. (sale, Rudolph Weigel, 28 October 1861, no. 2220-a-d]; (Frederick Startridge Ellis [active 1860 - 1885], London; formerly identified as F. S. Eliot)[2]; Henry Huth [1815 - 1878], London; by descent to his son, Alfred Henry Huth [1850 - 1910], London; (sale, Sotheby's London, 12 June 1913, no. 3722); (William Wesley & Son, London); Charles Francis George Richard Schwerdt, Old Alresford House, Hampshire (his sale, Sotheby's London, 15 July 1946, no. 2216); (The Rosenbach Company, Philadelphia); Lessing J. Rosenwald, Jenkintown; given to Edith Goodkind Rosenwald, Jenkintown; gift to NGA, 1987.
[1] Vignau-Wilberg 2017, 98 without documentation.
[2] Ellis was a book dealer who frequently sold to Huth and wrote the catalogue of Huth's collection. He started his own business just a year before The Four Elements appeared at Weigel. Ellis is correctly identified by M. Bartels, "Ueber abnorme Behaarung beim Menschen," Zeitschrift für Ethnologie 11 (1879): 155, note 1.
Exhibition History
- 1982
- Lessing J. Rosenwald: Tribute to a Collector, NGA, 1982, no. 57d (plate XIII), repro.
- 2010
- Arcimboldo, 1526-1593: Nature and Fantasy, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2010 - 2011, no. 34.
Bibliography
- 1960
- Wegner, Wolfgang. Kurfürst Carl Theodor von der Pfalz als Kunstsammler: zur entstehung und gründungsgeschichte des Mannheimer kupferstich- und zeichnungskabinetts. Mannheim, 1960: 13.
- 1982
- Fine, Ruth E. Lessing J. Rosenwald: Tribute to a Collector. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1982, no. 57.
- 1986
- Hand et al. 1986, 73.
- 1995
- Hendrix, Lee. "Of hirsutes and insects: Joris Hoefnagel and the art of the wondrous." Word and Image. 11 (October-December 1995): 373-390. [Mostly about Ignis.]
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- Plate 10: Nine Sharks
- 1987.20.7.11
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- Plate 11: Four Fish and Shells
- 1987.20.7.12
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- Plate 12: A Swordfish and Three Other Fish
- 1987.20.7.13
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- Plate 15: Six "Asellorum" Fish (Cod?)
- 1987.20.7.16
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- Plate 16: Eels, Pipefish, and Needlefish
- 1987.20.7.17
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- Plate 17: A Cod, Weever Fish, Eels, and Other Fish
- 1987.20.7.18
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- Plate 20: Sea Bream, Dentex, Sargo, and Other Fish
- 1987.20.7.21
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- Plate 21: Cod(?) and Other Fish
- 1987.20.7.22
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- Plate 22: Mullet, Flying Fish, Eels, and Other Fish
- 1987.20.7.23
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- Plate 23: Bream(?) and Other Fish
- 1987.20.7.24
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- Plate 26: Gurnards, Dragonets, and Other Fish
- 1987.20.7.27
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- Plate 27: Blennies, Scorpion Fish, and Other Fish
- 1987.20.7.28
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- Plate 28: Sea Bream(?) and Other Fish
- 1987.20.7.29
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- Plate 29: Homelyn Ray and Four Other Rays or Skates
- 1987.20.7.30
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- Plate 30: Four Rays
- 1987.20.7.31
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- Plate 32: Skates with an Egg Case and Two Flat Fish
- 1987.20.7.33
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- Plate 33: Sole and Other Flatfish with Bandfish(?)
- 1987.20.7.34
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- Plate 34: Seven Flatfish
- 1987.20.7.35
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- Plate 36: Five Fish, Including Carp(?)
- 1987.20.7.37
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- Plate 37: Six Fish, Including Carp
- 1987.20.7.38
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- Plate 38: Burbot, Rockling, and Other Fish
- 1987.20.7.39
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- Plate 39: Squid, Gurnard, Pike, and Other Fish
- 1987.20.7.40
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- Plate 40: Salmon, Trout, and Freshwater(?) Fish
- 1987.20.7.41
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- Plate 41: Whitefish(?) and Other Fish
- 1987.20.7.42
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- Plate 42: Nine Fish
- 1987.20.7.43
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- Plate 43: Fifteen Fish
- 1987.20.7.44
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- Plate 46: Two Crabs with Seashells
- 1987.20.7.47
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- Plate 47: Nine Crabs
- 1987.20.7.48
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- Plate 48: Ten Crabs
- 1987.20.7.49
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- Plate 4: Four Salmon
- 1987.20.7.5
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- Plate 58: Shells, including Abalone(?)
- 1987.20.7.59
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- Plate 6: Five Catfish and Sturgeon(?)
- 1987.20.7.7
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- Plate 7: Empty Oval
- 1987.20.7.8