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Wolf Huber

The Rapids of the Danube near Grein, 1531

Not on View

Medium

pen with black and gray ink

Dimensions

overall: 15.9 x 21 cm (6 1/4 x 8 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Accession Number

1950.20.7

Artists / Makers

Wolf Huber (artist) German, c. 1485/1490 - 1553

Image Use

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Inscription

upper right: 15-31; later hand? lower center: WH; other hand lower right verso: Alex. Hirschfogel, del.

Provenance

Princes of Liechtenstein, Vienna (Lugt 4398); 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.
Liechtenstein, Princes of
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1950: Masterpieces of Drawing: Diamond Jubilee Exhibition, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1950-1951, no. 37, repro.

1950: Rosenwald Collection: An Exhibition of Recent Accessions of Prints and Drawings, NGA, 1950, no. 52, repro.

1953: Landscape Drawings & Water-colors: Bruegel to Cézanne, Pierpont Morgan Library, 1953, no. 3, repro.

1953: Masterpieces of Graphic Art from the Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1953-1954, no catalogue.

1954: Chinese Landscape Painting, Cleveland Museum of Art, 1954-1955, no. 118, repro.

1954: Masterpieces from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1954, no catalogue.

1955: Master Drawings, Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, 1955.

1956: Masterpieces of Graphic Art. From the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, NGA, 1956.

1960: Gothic to Baroque, Allentown Art Museum, 1960, no. 88, repro.

1962: Drawings from the National Gallery of Art Collections, NGA, 1962.

1966: Drawings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, NGA, 1966.

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.93, repro.

1979: Early German Drawings & Prints: Two Recent Acquisitions and Related Works, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1979, no. 10.

Bibliography

1930: Halm 1930, 37.

1969: Yale UAG 1969, 93.