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Primary Master of the Strassburg Chronicle

Hector of Troy, Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar, 1492

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series Title

The Nine Worthies

Medium

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

Credit Line

Patrons' Permanent Fund

Accession Number

2003.102.1

Artists / Makers

Primary Master of the Strassburg Chronicle (artist) German, active 1480s and 1490s

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Inscription

extensive fifteenth-century text in brown ink

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Günther, Jörn

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.

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