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Allegory of Air and Earth

Bartholomäus Reiter  (German, 1583–1622 (active Munich))

Date:
1618
Medium:
Pen and brown ink with gray and violet wash and white heightening over black chalk and graphite
Dimensions:
sheet: 12 1/4 x 7 15/16 in. (31.1 x 20.1 cm)
Classification:
Drawings
Credit Line:
Van Day Truex Fund, 2001
Accession Number:
2001.530

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

    Inscription: Recto, bottom left corner, in pen and black ink, dated:[1] 618 Recto, center, in pen and brown ink: jf180 Verso, bottom right, in graphite: 5/1004625 Verso, lower right, in graphite: 2001.530 Verso, lower center, in red chalk: IIII1 Verso, bottom left corner, in graphite: 4)

    Marking: Watermark: Triple Mount in Quatrefoil with Letters, close to Piccard-Online No. 154028 (Munich, 1613)

  • Provenance

    JF 180 (not in Lugt) ; Galerie Claude Kuhn (Basel, Switzerland), Spring 1987, no. 28; Sotheby's, New YorkJanuary 12, 1990, lot 171; Private Collection, New York ; Monroe Warshaw (New York, NY); Vendor: Monroe Warshaw (New York, NY)

  • References

    Sotheby's, New York Sotheby's, New York, Jan. 12, 1990 sale catalogue Old Master Drawings. New York, 1990, cat. no. 171, fig. no. 171, p. 108, ill.

    Monroe Warshaw, Kunstkabinett, New York Kunstkabinett, New York, 2001, sale catalogue. New York, 2001, cat. no. 10, fig. no. 10, ill.

    Stijn Alsteens, Freyda Spira Dürer and Beyond: Central European Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1400-1700. New York, 2012, cat. 80 (entry written by Freyda Spira); p. xiv (introduction written by Stijn Alsteens), ill.



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