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An Allegory of Fortune with Two River Gods

Hans Jakob Ebelmann  (German, Speyer ca. 1570 - ca. 1625 Speyer)

Date:
1624
Medium:
Pen and black ink and grey and blue wash over black chalk
Dimensions:
sheet: 4 1/16 x 11 7/16 in. (10.3 x 29 cm)
Classification:
Drawings
Credit Line:
Harry G. Sperling Fund, 2005
Accession Number:
2005.2
  • Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

    Signature: Signed and dated in pen and black ink: Johann Ebelman 1624

  • Provenance

    Private Collection, Paris?; Sotheby's, Amsterdam, November 11, 1997, lot 49; Unicorno Collection (Saam Nijstad and Lily Nijstad -Einhorn, Amsterdam) ; Sotheby's, Amsterdam, May 19, 2004, lot 4; Vendor: Katrin Bellinger Kunsthandel , Munich

  • References

    Horst Vey "Kölner Zeichnungen aus dem 16., 17. und 18. Jahrhundert" Wallraf-Richartz-Jahrbuch. XXVI, Cologne, 1964, fig. no. 90, 125, ill.

    Handzeichnungen und Aquarelle Alter, Neuer, und Moderner Meister Prestel. Frankfurt, 1927, cat. no. 149, fig. no. on plate 1, 3, ill.

    Old Master Drawings Sale Cat. Sotheby's Amsterdam. November 11, 1997, cat. no. 49, ill.

    The Unicorno Collection Fifty Five Years of Collecting Drawings Sale Cat. Sotheby's Amsterdam. May 19, 2004, cat. no. 4, ill.

    Ingrid S. Brons Grenzeloos goed Tekeningen uit de Unicorno collectie, Haags Historisch Museum (March 3-May 27, 2001). 2001, cat. no. 49, 95, ill.

    Stijn Alsteens, Freyda Spira Dürer and Beyond: Central European Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1400-1700. New York, 2012, cat. 78 (entry written by Freyda Spira); p. 189, note 4, ill.



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