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Caspar Fraisinger  (German, Ochsenhausen near Biberach ca. 1560–1599 Ingolstadt)

Date:
1560–99
Medium:
Pen and gray ink and gray wash, with white heightening
Dimensions:
10.9 x 7.0 in. (27.7 x 17.8 cm)
Classification:
Drawings
Credit Line:
Purchase, Sally and Howard Lepow Gift, 1999
Accession Number:
1999.310

This artwork is part of Dürer and Beyond: Central European Drawings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1400–1700

This artwork is not on display

  • Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

    Signature: Signed with Freisinger's monogram, in pen and gray ink, the letters intertwined: CF

    Inscription: Recto, right margin, in pen and gray ink: Casp Recto, bottom right, in pen and ink: Eaing (?) Mat, bottom left, in graphite: ex. Col. Schmid., Vienna

    Marking: Recto, lower center: collector's mark (?) Recto, bottom right corner: fish-like imprint (collector's mark?)

  • Provenance

    Anton Schmid (born Oderfurt, Czechoslovakia, 1904, died Vienna)

  • References

    Heinrich Geissler Zeichnung in Deutschland: Deutsche Zeichner 1540-1640. Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Dec.1, 1979-Feb.17, 1980, cat. no. Vol.I; D31.

    Stijn Alsteens, Freyda Spira Dürer and Beyond: Central European Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1400-1700. New York, 2012, cat. 57 (entry written by Stijn Alsteens), ill.



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