Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and black ink with white heightening on blue prepared paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall (approximate): 14.6 x 22.6 cm (5 3/4 x 8 7/8 in.)
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Accession Number
1950.20.5
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Joseph Grünling [d. 1845/6], Vienna. Josef Carl Ritter von Klinkosch [1822-1888], Vienna (Lugt 577). Princes of Liechtenstein (Lugt 4398), Vienna, as by Hirschvogel; purchased 20 April 1948 through (Walter Felichenfeldt, Zurich) by Lessing J. Rosenwald, Jenkintown, PA;[1] gift to NGA in 1950.
[1] Rosenwald describes the acquisitions from Liechtenstein in Recollections of a Collector, 1976, p. 46-47.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1948
Seventy Master Drawings, Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 1948-1949, no. 26 (as Augustin Hirschvogel).
1950
Rosenwald Collection: An Exhibition of Recent Acquisitions, NGA, 1950, no. 47, repro.
1953
Landscape Drawings & Water-colors: Bruegel to Cézanne, Pierpont Morgan Library, 1953, no. 4.
1960
Gothic to Baroque, Allentown Museum of Art, 1960, no. 85 (as Augustin Hirschvogel).
1969
Prints and drawings of the Danube School; an exhibition of South German and Austrian graphic art of 1500 to 1560, Yale University Art Gallery, City Art Museum of St. Louis, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1969-1970, no. 111 (as Master of 1544), repro.
Bibliography
1969
Yale UAG 1969, 111.
1985
Kaufmann, Thomas Dacosta. "A Census of Drawings from the Holy Roman Empire, 1540-1680, in North American Collections" Central European History xviii, 1 (1985):4-13, 70-74, 95.
Inscriptions
lower center in white ink: 1544
Wikidata ID
Q64571869