National Gallery of Art :: The Collection :: Ceres Changes Stellio into a Lizard
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Provenance

Johann August Gottlieb Weigel [1773-1846], Leipzig; Theodore Oswald Weigel [1812-1881], Leipzig; (J.A.G. Weigel sale, Gutekunst, Stuttgart, 15 May 1883, no. 285). Richard von Kühlmann [1873-1948], Germany. Richard Holtkott [1866-1950], Bedburg. (sale, Stephan List, Frankfurt am Main, 10-11 October 1969, no. 120, as Elsheimer School). Kurt Meissner, Zurich. David Lachenmann, Munich; Wolfgang Ratjen, Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.

Exhibition History

1984
Hundert Zeichnungen aus Fünf Jahrhunderten. Galerie Meissner, Zurich, 1984, no. 5.
2006
Devil in the Detail: The Paintings of Adam Elsheimer (1578 - 1610). National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh; Dulwich Picture Gallery, London; Städelsches Kunstinstitut Frankfurt; 2006, 139, 142, fig. 93, 182, no. 43.
2010
German Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1580 - 1900, NGA, 2010, 35, 36, 56-57, no. 4 (entry by Peter Prange).

Bibliography

1836
Weigel, J.A.G. Aehrenlese auf dem Felde der Kunst:eine ausführliche Beschreibung von Original-handzeichnungen und Nadelarbeiten der Maler Kupferstichen und im Holz geschnittenen Werken. Leipzig, 1836: 10, no. 47.
1869
Weigel, J.A.G. Catalog einer Sammlung von Original-Handzeichnungen der deutschen, holländischen, flandrischen, italienischen, französischen, spanischen und englischen Schule. Leipzig, 1869, 12, no. 61.
1883
Bode, Wilhelm. Studien zur Geschichte der holländischen Malerei. Braunschweig, 1883: 305.
1936
Weizsäcker, Heinrich. Adam Elsheimer, der Maler von Frankfurt. Berlin, 1936 and 1952, vol. 1: 189, 335-336, n. 381; vol. 2: 42, under no. 42.
1966
Möhle, Hans. Die Zeichnungen Adam Elsheimers. Berlin, 1966: 176, no. C2 (listed as lost).
1971
Andrews, Keith. "A Rediscovered Elsheimer Drawing." Master Drawings 9 (1971): 38-39, pl. 16.
1977
Andrews, Keith. Adam Elsheimer: Paintings, Drawings, Prints. Oxford, 1977: 34, 42, no. 51, pl. 84.
1978
Lenz, Christian. Review of Keith Andrews, Adam Elsheimer: Paintings, Drawings, Prints. Phaidon Press Ltd., Oxford 1977. In Kunstchronik 31, no. 4 (April 1978): 168.
1985
Andrews, Keith. Adam Elsheimer--Werkverzeichnis der Gemälde, Zeichnungen, und Radierungen. Munich, 1985: 34, 43, no. 51, pl. 35.
1987
Klessmann, Rüdiger. "Elsheimers Aurora-Lanschaft in neuem Licht," in Was Getekend...tekenkunst door de eeuwen heen liber amicorum prof.dr. E.K.J. Reznicek, published in Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 1987 38 (1987): 167.
1988
Monkiewica, Maciej. "A Drawing of Elsheimer in the Collection of the National Museum in Warsaw," in Bulletin du Musée National de Varsovie 29, no. 4 (1988): 95, 97, 99, 104 (fig. 11).
1989
Schaar, Eckhard, Hanna Hohl, and Matthias Eberle. Von Dürer bis Baselitz. Deutsche Zeichnungen aus dem Kupferstichkabinett der Hamburger Kunsthalle. Hamburg, 1989: 58, under no. 24 (entry by Eckhard Schaar).
1993
Jaffé, Michael. Old Master Drawings from Chatsworth. London, 1993: 186, under no. 202.
1993
Kozak, Anna, and Maciej Monkiewicz.. Master European Drawings from Polish Collections. Washington, 1993: 44, under no. 23 (entry by Maciej Monkiewicz).
1995
Bonnefoy, Yves. Dessin, couleur et lumière. Paris, 1995: 86-87 (illustrated).
1997
Klessmann, Rüdiger. "Elsheimers 'Verspottung der Ceres'--zur Frage des Originals." In Städel-Jahrbuch 16 (1997): 239-240, 248 n. 4.
1997
Wohlfromm, Gisela. Rembrandts Auseinandersetzung mit der Kunst Adam Elsheimers. In Ars Faciendi vol. 8. Frankfurt am Main, 1997: 139.
2001
Lachenmann, David. "Wolfgang Ratjen as Collector." Master Drawings 39 (2001): 108, fig. 1.
2002
Jaffé, Michael. The Devonshire Collection of Northern European Drawings. Volume IV. German, English and Spanish Artists. Turin, 2002, 4: 476, under no. 1536 (851C).
2002
Pijl, Luuk. "Elsheimer, Adam." In Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon: Die Bildenden Künstler aller Zeiten und Völker 33, Munich and Leipzig, 2002: 389.
2003
Meissner, Kurt. Gemälde und Zeichnungen aus sechzig Jahren Kunsthandel. Zurich, 2003: 208, 304-305 (entry by Marcel Roethlisberger, color ill.).
2007
Prange, Peter. Deutschen Zeichnungen 1450-1800. Cologne, 2007: 161, under no. 314 (entry by Petra Roettig).
2008
Büttner, Frank, et al. Barock und Rokoko. Munich, 2008: 500, under no. 306 (entry by Peter Prange).
2008
Jacoby, Joachim. Die Zeichnungen von Adam Elsheimer. Kritischer Katalog. Frankfurt am Main, 2008, 212-215, no. 24.
2010
Robison, Andrew. "German Drawings for the National Gallery of Art: The Wolfgang Ratjen Collection." NGA Bulletin, Spring 2010: 5, 7, fig. 5.

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