The Emperor Maxentius Ordering the Burning of the Fifty Wise Men...

Albrecht Altdorfer  (German, (?) ca. 1480–1538 Regensburg)

Date:
1500–1538
Medium:
Pen and brown ink, and wash over black chalk
Dimensions:
sheet: 6 5/8 x 6 5/16 in. (16.9 x 16 cm)
Classification:
Drawings
Credit Line:
Purchase, Didier Aaron Inc. Gift, 2003
Accession Number:
2003.3
  • Provenance

    Sotheby's, London, July 10, 2002, lot 105 (circle of Altdorfer); Vendor: Katrin Bellinger Kunsthandel , Munich

  • References

    Stijn Alsteens, Freyda Spira Dürer and Beyond: Central European Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1400-1700. New York, 2012, cat. 19 (entry written by George R. Goldner); p. 84, note 5, ill.



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