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Inscription

center right in brown ink: LXVI.
Facing page: upper center in brown ink: Quis sufficit enarrare opera eius? Ecc 18. (“Who has the power to declare his works?” Ecclesiasticus 18:2) (Latin Vulgate Bible)

Provenance

Emperor Rudolph of Austria; Lessing J. Rosenwald, Alverthorpe, PA; gift to NGA, 1987.

Exhibition History

1982
Drawings from the Holy Roman Empire, 1540 - 1680, The Art Museum, Princeton University, National Gallery of Art, Museum of Art, Carnegie Insitute, Pittsburgh (exh. cat. by Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, no. 56.

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