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Design for a Tomb or Altar

Anonymous, German, 16th century 

Date:
late 16th century
Medium:
Pen and brown ink and brown-gray wash
Dimensions:
sheet: 10 3/16 x 4 13/16 in. (25.8 x 12.2 cm)
Classification:
Drawings
Credit Line:
Edward Pearce Casey Fund, 2003
Accession Number:
2003.510

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 right corner, in pen and black ink: S13. Verso, top center, in graphite: X484 Verso, bottom left corner, in graphite: 103003677

    Marking: Watermark of an eagle, snake and cross (Briquet 941).

  • Provenance

    Ingeborg Tremmel (died 2002); Ketterer Kunst, Munich, May 5-6, 2003, lot 202; Vendor: Katrin Bellinger Kunsthandel , Munich

  • References

    Stijn Alsteens, Freyda Spira Dürer and Beyond: Central European Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1400-1700 Ex. cat. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2012, p. 116, fig. 2, ill.



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