Back to Selected Highlights

The Last Judgment

Michael Herr  (German, Metzingen bei Reutlingen 1591–1661 Nuremberg)

Date:
ca. 1620
Medium:
Pen and black ink over red chalk
Dimensions:
16 1/4 x 12 7/8 in. (41.3 x 32.7 cm)
Classification:
Drawings
Credit Line:
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 2000
Accession Number:
2000.580
  • Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

    Signature: Lower right corner, artist's monogram in ink: "MH" Below monogram, signed or inscribed in graphite: "M. Herr"

    Inscription: Verso, lower right, in brown ink: "Michel Herr vom Metzingem um 1623" / "Das jüngste Gericht [underlined] mit vielen Figuren." / "Feder und Rothstein.-" / "Mit dem Zeichen." / "H.15"3''', Br. 12"-'''" [underlined] / "alt fg. M" / "1864 aus J.A. et Börners Sammlung." Upper center, in graphite: "58"; lower center: "Mich Herr" (?); lower right: "T-1054 (or J?) 2000.580"

  • Provenance

    J. A. Börner ; Vendor: Dr. Robert Keil

  • References

    Stijn Alsteens, Freyda Spira Dürer and Beyond: Central European Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1400-1700. New York, 2012, p. 178, fig. 2, ill.



90010547

Close