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Primary Master of the Strassburg Chronicle

Maximilian, Duke of Austria, on Horseback, 1492

Not on View

Medium

pen and black ink over traces of black chalk on laid paper ruled in leadpoint

Dimensions

overall: 38.7 x 26.1 cm (15 1/4 x 10 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Woodner Collection, Gift of Andrea Woodner

Accession Number

2006.11.16

Artists / Makers

Primary Master of the Strassburg Chronicle (artist) German, active 1480s and 1490s

Image Use

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Inscription

various notations overall; lower right in pen and black ink: 1492.

Provenance

Biblioteca Künastiana, Denmark, 1667; (sale, London, Christie's, 28 June 1972, lot 31); purchased by Ian Woodner, New York; by inheritance to his daughters, Andrea and Dian Woodner, New York, 1990.

Associated Names

Anonymous
Woodner and Ms. Andrea Woodner, Dian, Ms.
Woodner, Andrea
Woodner, Ian

Exhibition History

1973: Woodner Collection II: Old Master Drawings from the XV to the XVIII Century, William H. Schab Gallery, New York; Indianapolis Museum of Art, 1973-74, no. 1B, repro.

1983: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection, J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, CA; Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX; NGA, 1983-85, no.39A, repro.

1986: Dibujos de los siglos XIV al XX: Colección Woodner, Museo del Prado, Madrid, 1986-87, no. 53, repro.

1986: Meisterzeichnungen aus Sechs Jahrhunderten: Die Sammlung Ian Woodner, Albertina, Vienna and Haus der Kunst, Munich, 1986, no. 44, repro.

1987: Master Drawings: The Woodner Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1987, no. 41, repro.

1990: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1990, no. 51, repro.

1995: The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995-1996, no. 14, repro.

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

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

2021: Imperial Splendor: The Art of the Book in the Holy Roman Empire, ca. 800-1500, The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 2021-2022.

Bibliography

1973: Anzelewsky, F. Von späten Mittelalter bis zu Jacques-Louis David. Exh. cat. Staatliche Museen, Berlin, 1973: mentioned under no. 10.

1987: Melikian, Souren. "A Master Collector, Ian Woodner: An Eye for the Future." Art & Auction. (November 1987): 83, repro. p. 81.

1995: The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995-1996: no. 14.

2012: Schmidt, Peter. "Historigraphie und persönliche Aneignung von Geschichte. Die wiederentdeckte Künastsche Handschrift der Strassburger Chronik des Jakob Twinger von Königshofen." Schreiben und Lesen in her Stadt: Literaturbetrieb im spätmittelalterlichen Strassburg. 2012: 348, 368, 371, pls. 11a, 13 (detail).