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Design for Stained Glass: A Halbardier by an Unfinished Coat of Arms

Hans Jakob Plepp  (Swiss, Biel ca. 1557/60–ca. 1597/98 Bern)

Date:
ca. 1570–80
Medium:
Pen and black ink and gray wash
Dimensions:
12 1/8 x 8 5/16 in. (30.8 x 21.1 cm)
Classification:
Drawings
Credit Line:
Edward Pearce Casey Fund, 2000
Accession Number:
2000.579
  • Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

    Inscription: Verso, lower left, in graphite: "37830"; lower right: "v.2" (?)

    Marking: Verso, lower left, stamped in black ink with collector's mark of a rooster (Dr. Carl Robert Rudolf, Lugt 2811b)

  • Provenance

    Mr. C. R. Rudolph Lugt 2811b; Sotheby's, Amsterdam sale June 6, 1977, lot 2; Vendor: August Laube, Zürich

  • References

    August Laube, Zürich Drawings by Swiss Artists (Zeichnungen Schweizer Künstler). cat. no. 2, p. 2, ill.

    Stijn Alsteens, Freyda Spira Dürer and Beyond: Central European Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1400-1700. New York, 2012, cat. 46 (entry written by Stijn Alsteens), ill.



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