Standing Youth with a Branch

c. 1325

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and black ink with orange tempera on vellum

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall: 13 x 5.4 cm (5 1/8 x 2 1/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1971.19.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Eugène Rodrigues (sale, Frederik Muller, Amsterdam, 12-13 July 1921, no. 231, pl. LXXVII); to Steinmeyer; to Ludwig Rosenthal (Louis Randall); Robert Light; NGA purchase in 1971.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1974

  • NGA Recent Acquisitions, 1974, no. 1.

1978

  • Master Drawings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art and Promised Gifts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1978, p. 16.

1985

  • Figure Drawings from the National Gallery's Collection, Washington, D.C., 1985.

1994

  • Fanciful Flourishes: Ornament in European Graphic Art and Related Objects, 1300-1800, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994, as An Initial with a Standing Youth and Branch.

Bibliography

n.d.

  • Roland, Martin, and Andreas Zajic, "Les chartes médiévales enluminées dans les pays d'Europe centrale." Bibliothèque de l'École des Chartes 169 (2011): fig. 39b.

1938

  • Cauman, Samuel. "Two Drawings of Bohemian Alphabet Figures," Bulletin of the Fogg Art Museum, Studies of Master Drawings 8, no. 1 (November 1938): 4, 6-9.

  • Parker, K. T. Catalogue of the Collection of Drawings in the Ashmolean Museum, Volume I, Netherlandish, German, French and Spanish Schools. Oxford, 1938: 167, no. 370 (as French, about 1300).

1940

  • Mongan, Agnes and Paul Sachs. Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art. Cambridge, Mass., 1940, under no. 366 (as German?, about 1300-1350).

1965

  • Memorial Exhibition, Works of Art from the Collection of Paul J. Sachs [1878-1965]. Exh. cat. Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Mass.; Museum of Modern Art, New York. New York, 1965: no. 1 (as German, late 14th c.).

1976

  • Jenni, Ulrike. Das Skizzenbuch der internationalen Gotik in den Uffizien, der Übergang vom Musterbuch zum Skizzenbuch. Vienna, 1976, vol. 1: 70-72.

2000

  • Whiteley, Jon. Ashmolean Museum Oxford, Catalogue of the Collection of Drawings, Volume VII, French School. Oxford, 2000: 25-26, under no. 1, fig. 2.

Wikidata ID

Q64571827

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