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Joseph and Potiphar's Wife

Heinrich Aldegrever  (German, Paderborn ca. 1502–1555/1561 Soest)

Date:
1510–65
Medium:
Pen and black ink.
Dimensions:
Overall: 4 5/8 x 3 in. (11.8 x 7.6 cm)
Classification:
Drawings
Credit Line:
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1950
Accession Number:
50.605.2
  • Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

    Marking: MMA stamp on verso.

  • Provenance

    Vendor: János Scholz

  • References

    Otmar Plaßmann Die Zeichnungen Heinrich Aldegrevers. Marburg, 1994, cat. no. 1, fig. no. 1, pp. 32-33, 41, ill.

    Alan Shestack "Some Preliminary Drawings for Engravings by Heinrich Aldegrever" Master Drawinsg. VIII, 1970, fig. no. Plate 30, p. 143, ill.

    A. Hyatt Mayor "German Mannerist Drawings". XVII, Detroit, 1954, fig. no. 2, pp. 176-177, ill.

    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.

    Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann "A Census of Drawings from the Holy Roman Empire. 1540-1680 in North American Collections" Central European History. 18, Atlanta, 1985, p. 75.

    Stijn Alsteens, Freyda Spira Dürer and Beyond: Central European Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1400-1700. New York, 2012, cat. 35 (entry written by Freyda spira); p. x, xiii (introduction written by Stijn Alsteens), ill.



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