Hector of Troy, Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar

1492

Primary Master of the Strassburg Chronicle

Artist, German, active 1480s and 1490s

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and black ink over traces of black chalk on on laid paper ruled in leadpoint

  • Credit Line

    Patrons' Permanent Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 35 × 26.8 cm (13 3/4 × 10 9/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2003.102.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(sale, Christie's London, 7 November 1993, no. 121A, as South German). (Jörn Günther, Hamburg); purchased 2003 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2004

  • Six Centuries of Prints and Drawings: Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2004 - 2005

Bibliography

1995

  • Koreny, F., in The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections. Ed. M. M. Grasselli. Washington, D.C., 1995: 98-99, fig. 7.

2012

  • Schmidt, Peter. "Historigraphie und persönliche Aneignung von Geschichte. Die wiederentdeckte Künastsche Handschrift der Strassburger Chronik des Jakob Twinger von Königshofen." Schreiben und Lesen in her Stadt: Literaturbetrieb im spätmittelalterlichen Strassburg. 2012: 349-350, 374, pl. 16b.

Inscriptions

extensive fifteenth-century text in brown ink

Wikidata ID

Q64619718

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