Paul Graupe

1881 - 1953

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French early 16th Century, "Help Him Who Takes up His Burden, Not Him Who Lays It down" [fol. 31 recto], c. 1512/1515, pen and brown ink on laid paper, Woodner Collection, Gift of Andrea Woodner, 2006.11.53

"Help Him Who Takes up His Burden, Not Him Who Lays It down" [fol. 31 recto]

French early 16th Century · c. 1512/1515 · pen and brown ink on laid paper ·  Accession ID  2006.11.53

French early 16th Century, "You Are Shooting at Heaven" [fol. 9 recto], c. 1512/1515, pen and brown ink on laid paper, Woodner Collection, Gift of Andrea Woodner, 2006.11.36

"You Are Shooting at Heaven" [fol. 9 recto]

French early 16th Century · c. 1512/1515 · pen and brown ink on laid paper ·  Accession ID  2006.11.36

French early 16th Century, "Feed Not Things That Have Sharp Claws" [fol. 38 recto], 1512/1514, pen and brown ink with watercolor on laid paper, Woodner Collection, Gift of Andrea Woodner, 2006.11.44

"Feed Not Things That Have Sharp Claws" [fol. 38 recto]

French early 16th Century · 1512/1514 · pen and brown ink with watercolor on laid paper ·  Accession ID  2006.11.44

French early 16th Century, A Dialogue on Human Favor (recto) [fol. 15 verso / 16 recto], 1512/1514, pen and brown and black ink, heightened with gold on two joined sheets of laid paper, Woodner Collection, Gift of Andrea Woodner, 2006.11.34.a

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

French early 16th Century · 1512/1514 · pen and brown and black ink, heightened with gold on two joined sheets of laid paper ·  Accession ID  2006.11.34.a

French early 16th Century, "I Am Holding a Wolf by the Ears" (verso), c. 1512/1515, pen and brown and black ink, heightened with gold on laid paper, Woodner Collection, Gift of Andrea Woodner, 2006.11.34.b

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

French early 16th Century · c. 1512/1515 · pen and brown and black ink, heightened with gold on laid paper ·  Accession ID  2006.11.34.b

French early 16th Century, "Do Not Put Food in a Chamber Pot" [fol. 24 recto], c. 1512/1515, pen and brown ink with watercolor on laid paper, Woodner Collection, Gift of Andrea Woodner, 2006.11.48

"Do Not Put Food in a Chamber Pot" [fol. 24 recto]

French early 16th Century · c. 1512/1515 · pen and brown ink with watercolor on laid paper ·  Accession ID  2006.11.48

French early 16th Century, "You Are Tying a Dolphin by the Tail" [fol. 17 recto], c. 1512/1515, pen and black ink on laid paper, Woodner Collection, Gift of Andrea Woodner, 2006.11.35

"You Are Tying a Dolphin by the Tail" [fol. 17 recto]

French early 16th Century · c. 1512/1515 · pen and black ink on laid paper ·  Accession ID  2006.11.35

French early 16th Century, Credulity Preparing to Nurse the Mother of Hope [fol. 18 verso], c. 1512/1515, pen and brown ink with watercolor on laid paper, Woodner Collection, Gift of Andrea Woodner, 2006.11.32

Credulity Preparing to Nurse the Mother of Hope [fol. 18 verso]

French early 16th Century · c. 1512/1515 · pen and brown ink with watercolor on laid paper ·  Accession ID  2006.11.32

French early 16th Century, "Do Not Give Your Right Hand to All and Sundry" [fol. 13 recto], c. 1512/1515, pen and brown ink on laid paper, Woodner Collection, Gift of Andrea Woodner, 2006.11.52

"Do Not Give Your Right Hand to All and Sundry" [fol. 13 recto]

French early 16th Century · c. 1512/1515 · pen and brown ink on laid paper ·  Accession ID  2006.11.52

Surrounded by twenty-two men, women, and winged angels, a young man, wearing only a white loincloth, stands in a shallow body of water facing another man who kneels on the bank next to him and pours water onto his head in this horizontal painting. All the people have pale skin. At the center of the composition, the man in the water, Jesus, stands with his body angled slightly to our right. He is slim with shoulder-length, chestnut-brown hair, and he raises his hands to his chest, fingertips almost touching. To our right, the man who trickles water onto his head, John, faces our left in profile. Long, scraggly brown hair and beard frame his lined, wrinkled face, and he wears a camel-brown robe covering his torso and legs. It appears to be made from an animal skin whose face hangs at the bottom, draped over the edge of the riverbank. His bare arms reach forward toward Jesus as he upends a vessel in his right hand to pour out drops of water. The pair is flanked by three angels. The angel kneeling on the bank to our left has red hair and rust-red and teal-blue wings. That angel wears a scarlet-red cloak richly decorated with gold patterns and bordered with gemstones. With hands raised and fingertips touching, the angel holds a gray-green cloak hanging over a white robe. Two smaller angels kneel closer to us in front of the men. The red-headed angel on our left wears a powder-blue robe and strums a lute. The other, with blond hair and a white robe, draws a bow across a violin to our right. A crowd of fifteen people float above and around Jesus, John, and the angels to create an arch over them. They are dressed in robes of crimson or rose red, violet purple, peacock blue, moss green, or beige, and some are dressed as clergy members. Each person holds an object, for example, a basket of wafers, a sword, or a bishop’s crook. A man on the right side wearing armor kneels on a dragon. An elderly bearded man wearing a crown sits at the top of the arch with his hands raised. Small angels on either side of him hold open his scarlet-red cloak, which is lined with peacock blue. A long, narrow scroll curls in the pale blue sky under him. It reads, “HIC EST EILIVS MEVS DILECTV IN QVO MICHI CONLICVI.” The landscape around Jesus, John, and the angels on the riverbank creates a low hill topped with bushy trees. A half moon of pale blue sky encloses the landscape, creating a dome shape across the center of the composition. The crowd of men and women seem to float between the sky and the shiny gold background that surrounds the people and whole scene.
Master of the Saint Bartholomew Altar, The Baptism of Christ, c. 1485/1500, oil on panel, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1961.9.78

The Baptism of Christ

Master of the Saint Bartholomew Altar · c. 1485/1500 · oil on panel ·  Accession ID  1961.9.78