The Rapids of the Danube near Grein

1531

Wolf Huber

Artist, German, c. 1485/1490 - 1553

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen with black and gray ink

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

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

  • Accession

    1950.20.7

Artwork history & notes

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

Exhibition History

1950

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

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

1953

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

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

1954

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

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

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.

Inscriptions

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

Wikidata ID

Q64640538

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