Mary and John before the Man of Sorrows, c. 1514

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink with watercolor on laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 14.7 x 17.6 cm (5 13/16 x 6 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Woodner Collection

Accession Number

1998.17.5

Artists / Makers

Hans Süss von Kulmbach (artist) German, c. 1485 - 1522

Image Use

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Provenance

Noble Saxon family, (art market, Berlin); (Galerie Dr. W. Raeber, Basel); Tobias Christ (sale, London, Sotheby's, 9 April 1981, lot 10); (Richard Day, Ltd., London, 1981); purchased by Ian Woodner, New York, 1983; by inheritance to his daughters, Andrea and Dian Woodner, New York, 1990; gift to NGA, 1998.

Associated Names

Baskett & Day
Christ, Tobias
Woodner and Ms. Andrea Woodner, Dian, Ms.
Woodner, Ian

Exhibition History

1973: Fünfzig Jahre Kunsthandelsverband der Schweiz, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich, 1973, no. 186.

1985: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 1985, no. 94 (checklist only).

1986: Dibujos de los siglos XIV al XX: Colección Woodner, Museo del Prado, Madrid, 1986-87, no. 62.

1986: Die Sammlung Ian Woodner, Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna, 1986, no. 51 (not shown in Munich).

1986: Gothic and Renaissance Art in Nuremberg 1300-1550, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, 1986, no. 165.

1995: The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995-1996, no. 35.

2006: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2006 - 2007.

2017: The Woodner Collections: Master Drawings from Seven Centuries, NGA, 2017.

Bibliography

1942: Winkler, Friedrich. Die Zeichnungen Hans Süss von Kulmbachs und Hans Leonhard Schäuffeleins. Berlin, 1942: 22, 60, no. 42, pl. 42.

1959: Winkler, Friedrich. Hans von Kulmbach. Kulmbach, 1959: 85.

1970: Winzinger, Franz. "Unbekannte Werke des Hans Süss von Kulmbach und des Hans Schaüffelein." Zeichschrift des deutschen Vereins für Kunstwissenschaft 24 (1970): 67.

1985: Butts, Barbara Rosalyn."'Dürerschüler' Hans Süss von Kulmbach." Ph.D. diss., Harvard University, Cambridge, 1985: 124.

1995: The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995-1996: no. 35.

2006: Butts, Barbara. "The Drawings of Hans Süss von Kulmbach," Master Drawings 44, no. 2, 2006: 151, 187, no. A91, fig. 105.