Inscription
Signed with monogram on title page; one drawing signed and dated 1576 and another dated 1580
Marks and Labels
C.F.G.R. Schwerdt; Huth
Provenance
Emperor Rudolph of Austria; Secretarius Heinrich Hagen, Vienna, 1611.[1] Count Emanuel Maria Joseph von Arco, Munich, 1751. Graf von Seinsheim, canon of Salzburg and Speyer, 1753. Master stonemason Rüpfel, Munich, c. 1830. Joseph Anton Niggl [1792 - 1842], Markt Tölz. Karl August von Brentano [1817 - 1896], Augsburg. (sale, Rudolph Weigel, 28 October 1861, no. 2220-a-d]; (Frederick Startridge Ellis [active 1860 - 1885], London; formerly identified as F. S. Eliot)[2]; Henry Huth [1815 - 1878], London; by descent to his son, Alfred Henry Huth [1850 - 1910], London; (sale, Sotheby's London, 12 June 1913, no. 3722); (William Wesley & Son, London); Charles Francis George Richard Schwerdt, Old Alresford House, Hampshire (his sale, Sotheby's London, 15 July 1946, no. 2216); (The Rosenbach Company, Philadelphia); Lessing J. Rosenwald, Jenkintown; given to Edith Goodkind Rosenwald, Jenkintown; gift to NGA, 1987.
[1] Vignau-Wilberg 2017, 98 without documentation.
[2] Ellis was a book dealer who frequently sold to Huth and wrote the catalogue of Huth's collection. He started his own business just a year before The Four Elements appeared at Weigel. Ellis is correctly identified by M. Bartels, "Ueber abnorme Behaarung beim Menschen," Zeitschrift für Ethnologie 11 (1879): 155, note 1.
Exhibition History
- 1982
- Lessing J. Rosenwald: Tribute to a Collector, NGA, 1982, no. 57c (plate XXXVIII), repro.
- 2010
- Arcimboldo, 1526-1593: Nature and Fantasy, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2010 - 2011, no. 35.
Bibliography
- 1960
- Wegner, Wolfgang. Kurfürst Carl Theodor von der Pfalz als Kunstsammler: zur entstehung und gründungsgeschichte des Mannheimer kupferstich- und zeichnungskabinetts. Mannheim, 1960: 13.
- 1982
- Fine, Ruth E. Lessing J. Rosenwald: Tribute to a Collector. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1982, no. 57.
- 1986
- Hand et al. 1986, 73.
- 1995
- Hendrix, Lee. "Of hirsutes and insects: Joris Hoefnagel and the art of the wondrous." Word and Image. 11 (October-December 1995): 373-390. [Mostly about Ignis.]
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- Plate 9: Two Pheasants with Fruiting Plants
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- Plate 10: Gray Crowned Crane and Helmeted Curassow
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- Plate 12: Pair of Wood Grouse with a Melon and Pears
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- Plate 13: Two Curly Gray Chickens (Silkie Chickens?)
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- Plate 14: Spoonbill Crane and Flamingo
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- Plate 15: Common Crane and Bittern(?)
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- Plate 18: Heron and Stork
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- Plate 1: Two Ostriches and a Starling
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- Plate 19: Two Great Egrets with Green Breeding Masks
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- Plate 20: A Plover with Four Other Birds
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- Plate 22: Two White Pelicans with a Sycamore Fig
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- Plate 24: Two Swans, a Kingfisher, and a Bullfinch
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- Plate 26: Cormorant and Coot
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- Plate 2: Two Eagles
- 1987.20.8.3
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- Plate 29: Geese with Poppies and a Cyclamen
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- Plate 31: Duck, Merganser, and Three Goldfinches
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- Plate 3: Two Hawks
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- Plate 40: European Bee-Eater and Exotic Chicken
- 1987.20.8.41
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- Plate 44: Godwit(?) and Sandpipers with Two Gourds
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- Plate 45: Spotted Nutcracker and Shore Birds
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- Plate 47: Shore Birds with a Perching Bird
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- Plate 50: An Avocet with Two Other Birds
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- 1987.20.8.67
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- Plate 67: Two Doves beneath a Gourd and Apples
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- Plate 68: A Ptarmigan, Swallows, and Other Birds
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- Plate 7: Four Birds of Prey on a Wooden Frame
- 1987.20.8.8
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- Plate 8: Bearded Vulture with Two Birds of Prey
- 1987.20.8.9