A Dialogue on Human Favor (recto) [fol. 15 verso / 16 recto]

1512/1514

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown and black ink, heightened with gold on two joined sheets of laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Woodner Collection, Gift of Andrea Woodner

  • Dimensions

    overall: 16.3 x 21.4 cm (6 7/16 x 8 7/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2006.11.34.a

Associated Artworks

"I Am Holding a Wolf by the Ears" (verso)

French early 16th Century

1512


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Sale, London, Sotheby's, 13 July 1937, lot 64); (sale, London, Sotheby's, 15-17 November 1937, lot 546); (sale, London, Maggs Bros., Ltd., catalogue 709, 1941, no. 30); (purchased by William H. Schab Gallery via Paul Graupe); purchased by Ian Woodner, New York, by 1973; by inheritance to his daughters, Andrea and Dian Woodner, New York, 1990.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1973

  • Woodner Collection II: Old Master Drawings from the XV to the XVIII Century, William H. Schab Gallery, New York and tour, 1973-74, no. 3 (illustrated) and 4 (verso).

2006

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

2009

  • Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009, 20-21, no. 2b (color).

2011

  • Kings, Queens, and Couriers: Art in Early Renaissance France. Art Institute of Chicago, 2011, no. 98 (color)(entry by Martha Wolff).

2017

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

Bibliography

1941

  • Maggs Brothers. French Books and Prints, Incunabula, Bibles, and Bindings. Catalogue no. 709. London, 1941: no. 30.

1942

  • Saxl, Fritz. "A Spiritual Encyclopedia of the Later Middle Ages." Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes_ 5 (1942): 82-134.

1974

  • Butler, Joseph T. "Old Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection II." Connoisseur 186 (1974): 56-57.

1983

  • Massing, Jean Michel. "The Influence of Erasmus: Text and image in a French pre-emblematic manuscript." Manuscripts in the Fifty Years after the Invention of Printing (Colloquium Paper at the Warburg Institute) 1983: 75-82.

1987

  • Massing, Jean Michel. "The Illustrations of Lucian's Imago Vitae Aulicae." Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes. 50 (1987): 215-16.

1990

  • Massing, Jean Michel. Du texte à l'image. La Calomnie d'Apelle et son iconographie. Strasbourg, 1990: 48, 67, 81, 93, 284-285, no. 8A, pl. 8A.

1994

  • Colenbrander, H.Th. "Een serie tekeningen naar Erasmus' Adagia: Jean Perréal, de Maître aux Pieds-Bots en de Meester van de Legende van de H. Egidius." in Boeken in de late Middeleeuwen. Hermans and van der Hoek, eds. Groningen, 1994: 211-220, repr212.

1995

  • Massing, Jean Michel. Erasmian Wit and Proverbial Wisdom. An Illustrated Moral Compendium for François 1er. London, 1995: 80 (verso), 81-82, reprod. 151 (verso), 152-153 (recto).

Inscriptions

The figures labeled in pen and brown ink from left to right: Libido, Legum Codex:, Honor:, Fastus:, Opulentia:, Fuor:, Assentatio:, Inuidia:; and inscribed above the figure of Favor in four separate discs: Fortuna, Casus:, Forma:, Dotes/Animi

Watermarks

Briquet 13542

Wikidata ID

Q64570816


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