Red Squirrel

1578

Hans Hoffmann

Artist, German, c. 1545/1550 - 1591/1592

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    watercolor and gouache over traces of graphite on parchment

  • Credit Line

    Woodner Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 25 x 17.8 cm (9 13/16 x 7 in.)

  • Accession

    1991.182.5


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Mrs. M.A. Parker, Wilmington, Kent (sale, London, Sotheby's, 24 April 1929, lot 287); (sale, London, Christie's, 30 March 1976, lot 147); Dr. G. Rau (sale, London, Christie's, 7 April 1981, lot 147); (purchased by Albrecht Neuhaus, Würzburg); purchased by Ian Woodner, New York, 9 May 1984; by inheritance to his daughters, Andrea and Dian Woodner, New York, 1990; gift to NGA, 1991.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1983

  • Orangerie '83: Deutscher Kunsthandel im Schloss Charlottenburg, Orangerie, Berlin, 1983, no. 61.

1985

  • Albrecht Dürer und die Tier und Pflanzenstudien der Renaissance, Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna, 1985, no. 27.

  • Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, 1985, no. 95 (checklist only).

1986

  • Meisterzeichnungen aus Sechs Jahrhunderten: Die Sammlung Ian Woodner, Haus der Kunst, Munich and Vienna, 1986, no. 56.

  • Dibujos de los siglos XIV al XX: Colección Woodner, Museo del Prado, Madrid, 1986-87, no. 68.

1987

  • Master Drawings: The Woodner Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1987, no. 58.

1990

  • Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1990, no. 70.

1992

  • Dürer to Diebenkorn: Recent Acquisitions of Art on Paper, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1992, no. 9.

1995

  • The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995-1996, no. 58.

2000

  • Art for the Nation: Collecting for a New Century, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2000-2001, 154.

2006

  • Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2006 - 2007.

2010

  • Arcimboldo, 1526-1593: Nature and Fantasy, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Palazzo Reale, Milan, 2010-2011, brochure no. 19, fig. 13 (shown only in Washington).

2013

  • Albrecht Dürer: Master Drawings, Watercolors, and Prints from the Albertina. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2013 (exhibited hors catalogue; mentioned pp. 136, 139, under nos. 38-39, repr. p. 138 [entry by Heinz Widauer]).

2017

  • The Woodner Collections: Master Drawings from Seven Centuries, NGA, 2017.

2020

  • Renaissance Watercolours: from Durer to Van Dyck, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2020 (cat. by Mark Evans with Elania Pieragostini), no. 87 (exhibition canceled; squirrel did not travel).

Bibliography

1928

  • Tietze, Hans, and Erika Tietze-Conrat. Kritisches Verzeichnis der Werke Albrecht Dürers. 2 vols in 3. Augsburg, 1928-34: II: pl. 1, no. w24a.

1929

  • Dodgson, Campbell. "Hans Hoffmann: a Squirrel." Old Master Drawings IV (1929): 50-1.

1932

  • Winkler, Friedrich. "Dürerstudien III: Verschollene Meisterzeichnungen Dürers." Jahrbuch der Preussischen Kunstsammlungen 53 (1932): 86.

1934

  • Schilling, E. Altdeutsche Meisterzeichnungen. Frankfurt am Main, 1934: no. 56.

1936

  • Winkler, Friedrich. Die Zeichnungen Albrecht Dürers. 4 vols. Berlin, 1936-9: III: appendix, under pl. XII.

1943

  • Panofsky, Erwin. Albrecht Dürer. 2 vols. Princeton, 1943: no. 1356.

1952

  • Musper, H.T. Albrecht Dürer: Der gegenwärtige Stand der Forschung. Stuttgart, 1952: 126, 128.

1962

  • Pilz, Wolfgang. "Hans Hoffmann: Ein Nuremberger Dürer-Nachahmer aus der zweiten Hälfte der 16. Jahrhunderts." Mitteilungen der Vereins für Geschichte der Stadt Nüremberg 51 (1962): 254.

1974

  • Strauss, Walter L. The Complete Drawings of Albrecht Dürer. 6 vols. New York, 1974: II: under no. 1502/8; Appendix 2, no. 3.

1981

  • Davis, F. "Legends with a Light Touch." Country Life. 14 May 1981: 1326.

1995

  • The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995-1996: no. 58.

1999

  • Eichler, Anja-Franziska. Albrecht Dürer, 1471 - 1528. Cologne, 1999: no. 133.

2018

  • Tschetschik-Hammerl, Ksenija. "Das Dürer-Monogramm als Gegenstand der Nachahmung im 16. und frühen 17. Jahrundert." kunsttext.de, 2018, accessed 1/24/2024, https://edoc.hu-berlin.de/bitstream/handle/18452/20223/KT_2018-3%20Hammerl.pdf: 2 and fig. 3.

2021

  • Baker, Christopher. "A history of watercolour... Review of Renaissance Watercolours." Burlington Magazine. 163 (February 2021): 158-159.

2023

  • Tschetschik-Hammerl, Ksenija. Nach Dürer. Kunst begegnet Nature bei Hans Hoffmann und Daniel Fröschel. Petersburg, 2023: no. 33.

Inscriptions

lower center in pen and ink: Hh / 1578

Wikidata ID

Q64572926


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