Inscription
Signed with monogram on title page
Marks and Labels
C.F.G.R. Schwerdt; Huth
Provenance
Emperor Rudolf II of Austria?[1]; Secretarius Heinrich Hagen, Vienna, 1611.[2] Count Emanuel Maria Joseph von Arco, Munich, 1751.[3] 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)[3]; 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.
Associated Names
A.S.W. Rosenbach GalleryArco, Emanuel Maria Joseph von Count
Brentano, Karl August von
Eliot, F. S.
Ellis, Frederick Startridge
Habsburg, Rudolph II Holy Roman Emperor
Hagen, Heinrich Secretarius
Huth, Alfred Henry
Huth, Henry
Niggl, Joseph Anton
Rosenwald, Lessing J., Mrs.
Rüpfel
Schwerdt, Charles Francis George Richard
Seinsheim Graf von
Sotheby's, London
Sotheby's, London
Weigel, Rudolph
William Wesley & Son
Exhibition History
- 1982
- Lessing J. Rosenwald: Tribute to a Collector, NGA, 1982, no. 57a (plate I), repro.
- 1986
- The Age of Bruegel, 1986-1987, NGA, The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, cat. by John Oliver Hand et al., no. 72
- 1998
- A Collector's Cabinet, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1998, no. 76.
- 1999
- From Botany to Bouquets: Flowers in Northern Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1999, no. 45, as Iris from Animalia Rationalia et Insecta (Ignis).
- 2002
- Deceptions and Illusions: Five Centuries of Trompe l'Oeil Painting, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2002-2003, no. 30, as Ignis (Animalia Rationalia et Insecta) Plate 47.
- 2010
- Arcimboldo, 1526-1593: Nature and Fantasy, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2010 - 2011, no. 32.
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.
- 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, 88.
- 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.
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