Landscape with a Castle, 1544

Not on View

Medium

pen and black ink with white heightening on blue prepared paper

Dimensions

overall: 15.5 x 22.1 cm (6 1/8 x 8 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Accession Number

1950.20.4

Artists / Makers

German 16th Century (artist)

Image Use

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Inscription

lower center in white ink: 1544; lower right on attached sheet in black ink: A. Hirschvogel del

Provenance

Princes of Liechtenstein, Vienna (Lugt 4398), as by Hirschvogel; purchased 20 April 1948 through (Walter Felichenfeldt, Zurich) by Lessing J. Rosenwald, Jenkintown, PA;[1] gift to NGA in 1950.

[1] Rosenwald describes the acquisitions from Liechtenstein in Recollections of a Collector, 1976, p. 46-47.

Associated Names

Feilchenfeldt, Walter M.
Liechtenstein, Princes of
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1950: Masterpieces of drawing: diamond jubilee exhibition, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1950-1951, no. 39, repro.

1953: Landscape Drawings & Water-colors: Bruegel to Cézanne, Pierpont Morgan Library, 1953, no. 5.

1969: Prints and drawings of the Danube School; an exhibition of South German and Austrian graphic art of 1500 to 1560, Yale University Art Gallery, City Art Museum of St. Louis, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1969-1970, no. 110 (as Master of 1544), repro.

1985: Landscape Drawings from the National Gallery's Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1985.

Bibliography

1969: Yale UAG 1969, 110.

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, 94.