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Christ Appearing to Mary Magdalen

Master of the Coburg Roundels  (German, Strasbourg, ca. 1470–1500)

Former Attribution:
Formerly attributed to Anonymous, German
Period:
15th century
Date:
ca. 1490
Medium:
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, and black chalk
Dimensions:
9 7/8 x 6 5/8 in. (25.1 x 16.8 cm)
Classification:
Drawings
Credit Line:
Gift of Walter Lowery, 1957
Accession Number:
57.32.1
  • Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

    Inscription: Verso, bottom right corner, in graphite: 57.32.1

    Marking: Watermark: shield with three fleurs de lis and staff with two flowers Verso, bottom right corner: MMA stamp

  • Provenance

    Donor: Walter Lowry, New York

  • References

    Christiane Andersson, Charles Talbot, Detroit Institute of Arts From a Mighty Fortress. Prints, Drawings, and Books in the Age of Luther, 1483-1546 Exhibition catalogue, Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1983, fig. no. 23, pp. 390; 391, ill.

    Brigitte Reinhardt, Michael Roth, Corpus Vitrearum, Medii Aevi Deutschland, Freiburg Bilder aus Licht und Farbe Meisterwerke spätgotischer Glasmalerei. "Straßburger Fenster" in Ulm und ihr künstlerisches Umfeld. Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Ulm, 1995, Mentioned as one of six drapery studies., cat. no. 74, fig. no. 74.1, pp. 222; 223, ill.

    Stijn Alsteens, Freyda Spira Dürer and Beyond: Central European Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1400-1700. New York, 2012, p. 8, fig. 2, ill.



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