View of Orsoy, 1650

Not on View

Medium

pen and ink over graphite on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 13.2 × 44.4 cm (5 3/16 × 17 1/2 in.)
mount: 20.5 × 52.1 cm (8 1/16 × 20 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Katherine and Alexandra Baer

Accession Number

2016.133.1

Artists / Makers

Wenceslaus Hollar (artist) Bohemian, 1607 - 1677

Image Use

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Inscription

upper right in pen and ink: Orsoij 1650; by later hand, lower right in graphite: Lautensack; verso, lower center in blue pencil: Wellesley Colln and below that in graphite: 565-0417; center right in graphite, [illeg.]/ J. B. S. [initials of James Byam Shaw?]; by another hand, lower right in graphite: D27824

Provenance

Prosper Henry Lankrink [1628-1692] (Lugt 2090). Dr. Henry Wellesley, Oxford [1791 - 1866]. Sir Bruce S. Ingram, London [1877-1963](Lugt 1405a). (Colnaghi, London, 1966; inv. D27824); Curtis Otto Baer, New Rochelle [1898 - 1976] (Lugt 3366); by descent to Dr. and Mrs. George M. Baer, Atlanta; to their daughters Katherine and Alexandra Baer; gift to NGA, 2016.

Associated Names

Baer, George M., Dr. and Mrs.

Exhibition History

1963: Wenceslaus Hollar, 1607 - 1677, Drawings, Paintings, and Etchings. City of Manchester Art Gallery, 1963, no. D104.

1985: Master Drawings from Titian to Picasso: The Curtis O. Baer Collection. NGA, 1985; Indianapolis Museum of Art, 1985-1986; John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, 1986; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, 1986; Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, 1986; Frederick Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, 1986 - 1987, no. 45 (Eric Zafran).

2010: Drawings from the Collection of Curtis O. Baer. Jill Newhouse Gallery, New York, 2010, no. 12 (online cat. by Amy Kurlander).

Bibliography

2017: Volrábová, Alena, translated by Linda Leffová. Wenceslaus Hollar, 1607-1677: Drawings, a catalogue raisonné. Prague, 2017: no. II/119.