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Christoph Murer

Design for a Window (Hunting Scene), 1579

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Medium

pen and black ink with touches of gray wash on laid paper

Dimensions

Overall: 37 x 27.9 cm (14 9/16 x 11 in.)
support: 42 x 32.8 cm (16 9/16 x 12 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Accession Number

1971.43.1

Artists / Makers

Christoph Murer (artist) Swiss, 1558 - 1614

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Inscription

lower left: CM / SZ / 1579; in later hand, lower left in graphite on mount: signed Christoph Murer & dated 1579

Exhibition History

1994: Fanciful Flourishes: Ornament in European Graphic Art and Related Objects, 1300-1800, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994.

Bibliography

1982: Kaufmann 1982, 12.

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, 96.

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