Inscription
Signed with monogram on title page; 1 drawing dated 1575 and another dated 1580
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. 57b (plate XXXVIII), repro.
- 2010
- Arcimboldo, 1526-1593: Nature and Fantasy, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2010 - 2011, no. 33.
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 9: A Donkey and a Mule
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- Plate 10: A Lion and a Civet Cat
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- Plate 11: A Lioness with Two Lions in the Background
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- Plate 12: A Cheetah(?) and a Wild Sheep
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- Plate 13: A Tiger, a Lynx, and a Jaguar(?)
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- Plate 14: A Civet, a Lynx, and a Hyena Eating a Dog
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- Plate 15: A Bear and a Lynx(?)
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- Plate 16: Wild Boar
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- Plate 17: Old World Porcupine (Hystrix) and Wild Pig
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- Plate 18: A Pig with Acorns
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- Plate 1: Elephant with Insects
- 1987.20.6.2
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- Plate 19: Four Types of Stags
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- Plate 20: Three Types of Stags with a Dormouse(?)
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- Plate 21: Reindeer with Melons
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- Plate 24: A Wild Goat and a Barbary Sheep(?)
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- Plate 26: A Red Fox and a Wolf
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- Plate 2: Two Giraffes with an Attendant
- 1987.20.6.3
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- Plate 30: Two Monkeys
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- Plate 32: Two Monkeys on a Table
- 1987.20.6.33
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- Plate 33: A "Simivulpa" (Opossum?) and an Ibex
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- Plate 34: Three Dogs, Including a "Mimick"
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- Plate 35: A Hound and a Water Spaniel
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- Plate 36: Two Spotted Hounds
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- Plate 37: Two Spaniels with a Gourd
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- Plate 38: Two Small Dogs with a Crown Imperial
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- Plate 3: Camel, Ibex, and Goat
- 1987.20.6.4
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- Plate 40: Two Otters and a Beaver
- 1987.20.6.41
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- Plate 42: Two Genets or Civet Cats with Tulips
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- Plate 43: Mongoose and Badger with Fruit Trees
- 1987.20.6.44
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- Plate 44: Polecat, Mink, and Ermine
- 1987.20.6.45
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- Plate 45: Weasels, a Ferret, and a "Nut Mouse"
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- Plate 4: Llama and Moose
- 1987.20.6.5
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- Plate 52: Two Sand Lizards
- 1987.20.6.53
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- Plate 56: Two Heads of Cabbage
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- Plate 58: Asps and Vipers
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- Plate 5: An Ox and a Camel
- 1987.20.6.6
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- Plate 59: Snakes and a Lizard
- 1987.20.6.60
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- Plate 60: Four Small Snakes
- 1987.20.6.61
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- Plate 61: Four Snails
- 1987.20.6.62
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- Plate 62: A Slug with Snails
- 1987.20.6.63
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- Plate 63: Seven Snails
- 1987.20.6.64
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- Plate 71: Empty Oval
- 1987.20.6.72
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- Plate 7: A Bull and a Horned Animal
- 1987.20.6.8
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- Plate 8: A Cow
- 1987.20.6.9