The Death of Priam, c. 1660

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink with brown washes over graphite on tan laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 21.3 x 30.6 cm (8 3/8 x 12 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Accession Number

1992.16.1

Artists / Makers

Michael Lukas Leopold Willmann (artist) German, 1630 - 1706

Image Use

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Inscription

by later hand, lower center verso in graphite: M.L. WILLMANN

Provenance

Private Collection, Prague; Private Collection, Munich; purchased by Kent Sobotik, 1974; (sale, New York, Christie's, 15 January 1992, lot 170); purchased (via Galerie Arnoldi-Livie, Munich) by NGA, 1992.

Associated Names

Christie's
Galerie Arnoldi-Livie
Sobotik, Kent

Exhibition History

1989: Drawing from the Holy Roman Empire 1540-1680, The Art Museum, Princeton University, 1989, 196, no. 77.

1992: Dürer to Diebenkorn: Recent Acquisitions of Art of Paper, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1992, no. 24.

Bibliography

1982: Kaufmann 1982, 77.

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, 112.

2005: Old Master Drawings, including Property from the Arthur Feldmann Collection, sale cat., Sotheby's, London, 6 July 2005, under lot 53.