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Landscape

Isaak Major  (German, Frankfurt am Main ca. 1576–1630/36 Vienna)

Date:
early 17th century
Medium:
Pen and blue ink, brush and blue wash
Dimensions:
Overall: 5 5/16 x 8 1/4 in. (13.5 x 21 cm)
Classification:
Drawings
Credit Line:
Rogers Fund, 1966
Accession Number:
66.93.5
  • Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

    Inscription: Mount, recto, lower right, in graphite: 66.93.5 Verso, bottom left, in graphite: N116 Verso, lower right, in graphite, inscription (?) Verso, bottom right corner, in graphite: 66.93.5

    Marking: Verso, bottom left, collector's stamp of the Ferdinandeum Museum, Innsbruck (not in Lugt)

  • Provenance

    Ludwig von Wieser (German, 1808–1888 Innsbruck); Ferdinandeum Museum, Innsbruck ; Vendor: P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., Ltd., London , April 19 - May 6, 1966, lot 35 (as J. Savery)

  • References

    Exhibition of Old Master Drawings Colnaghi, London. April 19 - May 6, 1966, cat. no. 35.

    Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann, Anne Marie Logan European Drawings and Watercolors in the Yale University Art Gallery 1500-1900. 1, New Haven, 1970, cat. no. under 415, p. 228.

    Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, Princeton University Art Museum, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., Carnegie Institute, Museum of Art, Pittsburgh Drawings from the Holy Roman Empire, 1540-1680. A Selection from North American Collections. 1982, (cont. from Remarks) and adopted certain elements of Savery's drawing style.", cat. no. under 67, pp. 179, FN1.

    Sotheby's, Amsterdam Sotheby's, Amsterdam, Sale Catalogue, November 18, 1985. Amsterdam, Nov 18 1985, cat. no. under 15, p. 73.

    Emmanuelle Brugerolles, David Guillet Renaissance et Maniérisme dans les Écoles du Nord Dessins des collections de l'École des Beaux-Arts. École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, Paris, 1985, cat. no. under 125.

    Sotheby's, London Sotheby's, London, Sale Catalogue, July 1, 1991. London, July 1, 1991, cat. no. under 21, p. 19.

    Stijn Alsteens, Freyda Spira Dürer and Beyond: Central European Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1400-1700. New York, 2012, cat. 69 (entry written by Freyda Spira); p. x (introduction written by Stijn Alsteens), ill.



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