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Christ Presented to the People

Georg Vischer  (German, Riedlingen ca. 1595–ca. 1637 Munich (?))

Date:
early 17th century
Medium:
Pen and brown ink and brown wash with white heightening; squared in red chalk
Dimensions:
sheet: 11 1/16 x 8 3/4 in. (28.1 x 22.2 cm)
Classification:
Drawings
Credit Line:
Purchase, Carl Selden Trust, 1999
Accession Number:
1999.309
  • Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

    Inscription: Mount, recto, bottom right corner, in graphite: 1999.309 Mount, verso, bottom center, in graphite, in a circle: 313

    Marking: Verso, lower center, black and brown paint marks

  • Provenance

    Galerie Bassenge (Berlin)November 1976, lot 236; Anton Schmid (born Oderfurt, Czechoslovakia, 1904, died Vienna)

  • References

    Hans-Martin Kaulbach, Guido Messling Deutsche Zeichnungen vom Mittelalter bis zum Barock. 2007, cat. no. under no. 687, p. 331.

    Heinrich Geissler Zeichnung in Deutschland: Deutsche Zeichner 1540-1640. Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Dec.1, 1979-Feb.17, 1980, cat. no. D28.

    Stijn Alsteens, Freyda Spira Dürer and Beyond: Central European Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1400-1700. New York, 2012, cat. 85 (entry written by Freyda Spira).



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