Landscape with Men Fishing, 1544

Not on View

Medium

pen and black ink with white heightening on blue prepared paper

Dimensions

overall (approximate): 14.6 x 22.6 cm (5 3/4 x 8 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Accession Number

1950.20.5

Artists / Makers

German 16th Century (artist)

Image Use

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Inscription

lower center in white ink: 1544

Provenance

Joseph Grünling [d. 1845/6], Vienna. Josef Carl Ritter von Klinkosch [1822-1888], Vienna (Lugt 577). Princes of Liechtenstein (Lugt 4398), Vienna, as by Hirschvogel; purchased 20 April 1948 through (Walter Felichenfeldt, Zurich) by Lessing J. Rosenwald, Jenkintown, PA;[1] gift to NGA in 1950.

[1] Rosenwald describes the acquisitions from Liechtenstein in Recollections of a Collector, 1976, p. 46-47.

Associated Names

Feilchenfeldt, Walter M.
Grünling, Josef
Liechtenstein, Princes of
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius
von Klinkosch, Josef Carl Ritter

Exhibition History

1948: Seventy Master Drawings, Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 1948-1949, no. 26 (as Augustin Hirschvogel).

1950: Rosenwald Collection: An Exhibition of Recent Acquisitions, NGA, 1950, no. 47, repro.

1953: Landscape Drawings & Water-colors: Bruegel to Cézanne, Pierpont Morgan Library, 1953, no. 4.

1960: Gothic to Baroque, Allentown Museum of Art, 1960, no. 85 (as Augustin Hirschvogel).

1969: Prints and drawings of the Danube School; an exhibition of South German and Austrian graphic art of 1500 to 1560, Yale University Art Gallery, City Art Museum of St. Louis, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1969-1970, no. 111 (as Master of 1544), repro.

Bibliography

1969: Yale UAG 1969, 111.

1985: Kaufmann, Thomas Dacosta. "A Census of Drawings from the Holy Roman Empire, 1540-1680, in North American Collections" Central European History xviii, 1 (1985):4-13, 70-74, 95.