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Venus and Cupid (r); Studies of a Woman (v.)

Nikolaus Knüpfer  (German, Leipzig 1603–1655/60 Utrecht)

Date:
1620–60
Medium:
Pen and brown ink, brown wash and lead white heightening; framing lines in brown ink
Dimensions:
15-3/16 x 12-3/16 in. (38.6 x 31.0 cm)
Classification:
Drawings
Credit Line:
Ian Woodner Family Collection Fund, 1999
Accession Number:
1999.151a, b
  • Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

    Inscription: Verso, sketch of a woman's head

  • Provenance

    Vendor: Katrin Bellinger Kunsthandel , Munich

  • References

    Jo Saxton Nicolaus Knupfer an Original Artist Monograph and Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings and Drawings. 2005, cat. no. D19, p. 228.

    Stijn Alsteens, Freyda Spira Dürer and Beyond: Central European Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1400-1700. New York, 2012, cat. 88 (entry written by Stijn Alsteens); p. xiv (introduction written by Stijn Alsteens), ill.



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