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Pygmalion

Joachim von Sandrart  (German, Frankfurt 1606–1688 Nuremburg)

Date:
1662
Medium:
Brush and gray and black wash, heightened with white.
Dimensions:
Overall: 16 x 11 9/16 in. (40.7 x 29.4 cm)
Classification:
Drawings
Credit Line:
Purchase, Karen B. Cohen Gift and Sotheby's Inc. Gift, 1996
Accession Number:
1996.414
  • Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

    Signature: Recto, lower left, in black wash, signed and dated on recto at lower left: "J.V. Sandrart / a Stockau Invenit 1662"

    Inscription: Verso, lower right, in ink: "un Dessein de Sandrart. / achete de Groote pour 15.fl:"

    Marking: Watermark: "M" [inscribed a circle] (similar to Briquet 8383, Memmingen 1599/Memmingen 1604)

  • Provenance

    Johann Nikolaus Grooth (German, Stuttgart 1723–1797 Memmingen)(as per note on verso by Oettingen-Wallerstein); Prince Oettingen-Wallerstein (Schloss Harburg, Germany), inv. 1009; Vendor: Trinity Fine Art, Ltd. (London)

  • References

    Augsburger Barock Ausstellung unter dem Patronat von ICOM (Augsburg, Rathaus und Holbeinhaus, 15 June - 13 October 1968). Edited by Christina Tron, Augsburg, 1968, cat. no. 328, fig. no. 182, p. 244, ill.

    Christian Klemm Joachim von Sandrart. Berlin, 1986, p. 344.

    Stijn Alsteens, Freyda Spira Dürer and Beyond: Central European Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1400-1700. New York, 2012, cat. 97 (entry written by Freyda Spira); p. xi (introduction written by Stijn Alsteens); p. 127.



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