Christ as Salvator Mundi

1595

Caspar Meneller

Artist, German, 1575 - 1630

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink with gray wash on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall: 25.6 x 12.6 cm (10 1/16 x 4 15/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2005.15.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Rolas du Rosey collection (sale, Weigel, Leipzig, 5 September 1864, no. 5386, as Murer); Boguslaw Jolles, Dresden and Vienna (Lugt 381)(sale, Helbing, Munich, 31 October 1895, no. 374, as C. Murer); (sale, Weinmüller, Munich, 9-10 March 1939, no. 317, as C. Maurer). Kurt Meissner, Zurich. (C. G. Boerner, Inc., New York); NGA purchase in 2004.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1983

  • Geissler, Heinrich. "Die Zeichnungen des Augsburger Bildhauers Caspar Meneller." Münchner Jahrbuch der Bildenden Kunst 34 (1983): fig. 13, 72-73.

1997

  • Rom in Bayern, Kunst und Spiritualität der ersten Jesuiten, exh. cat. Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich, 1997: 397, under no. 97.

Inscriptions

lower center in brown ink: S. Bartolomeo tag Ao 95 Monachi CM (in monogram); by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: (not deciphered) 5055 / No. 25191; by later hand, lower center verso in graphite: Maurer Maurer.; by later hand, lower right verso in blue pencil: 317

Wikidata ID

Q64538107

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