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Saint John the Baptist in the Wilderness

Hans Süss von Kulmbach  (German, Kulmbach ca. 1480–1522 Nuremberg)

Date:
ca. 1510–15
Medium:
Pen and brown ink with traces of black chalk and brush and grey ink
Dimensions:
Diameter: 10 13/16 in. (27.4 cm)
Classification:
Drawings
Credit Line:
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953
Accession Number:
53.112
  • Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

    Marking: Watermark crown topped by a cross similar to Briquet 4921 (Augsburg, 1500), 4922 (Bamberg, 1502), see tracing in Dept. file.

  • Provenance

    Princes of Liechtenstein, Castle of Feldsburg and Vienna; Otto Wertheimer, Paris (1878–1972); Vendor: Charles E. Slatkin

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Butts A23.

  • References

    Heinrich Röttinger "Handzeichnungen des Hans Süss von Kulmbach" Münchner Jahrbuch der Bildenden Kunst. N.F. 4, Munich, 1927, fig. no. 8, p. 17, ill.

    Friedrich Winkler "Verkannte und Unbeachtete Zeichnungen des Hans von Kulmbach" Jahrbuch der Preussichen Kunstsammlungen. 50, 1929, pp. 33; 44.

    Franz Stadler Hans von Kulmbach. Vienna, 1936, cat. no. 57, fig. no. pl. 22, 115, ill.

    Friedrich Winkler Die Zeichnungen Hans Suss von Kulmbachs und Hans Leonhard Schäufeleins. Berlin, 1942, cat. no. 110, fig. no. pl.110, pp. 34; 91, ill.

    "The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin" Incorporating the Eighty-Fourth Annual Report of the Trustees for the Year 1953. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, XIII, New York, 1954, p. 23.

    Jeffrey Chipps Smith, Blanton Museum of Art Sept.2-Oct.16, 1983, Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, Kansas Nov.7-Dec.31, 1983, University Art Museum, Santa Barbara, California Feb.15-March 18, 1984 Nuremberg, a Renaissance City, 1500-1618. Austin, 1983–1984, cat. no. 36, fig. no. 36, p. 132, ill.

    The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nürnberg Gothic and Renaissance Art in Nuremberg 1300-1500. Munich, Apr 8-June 22, 1986, fig. no. 161, p. 343, ill.

    Barbara Butts "The Drawings of Hans Süss von Kulmbach" Master Drawings. XLIV, no. 2, 2006, cat. no. A23, fig. no. 63, p. 165, ill.

    Stijn Alsteens, Freyda Spira Dürer and Beyond: Central European Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1400-1700. New York, 2012, cat. 12 (entry written by Freyda Spira); p. ix (introduction written by Stijn Alsteens), ill.



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