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An Allegory of the Union of the House of Orange and the Wittelsbach Family (Design for a Title Page of a Thesis)

Jonas Umbach  (German, Augsburg 1624–1693 Augsburg)

Date:
mid-17th–late 17th century
Medium:
Black chalk, pen and brown ink, gray wash
Dimensions:
sheet: 26 5/8 x 18 5/16 in. (67.7 x 46.5 cm)
Classification:
Drawings
Credit Line:
Purchase, Jean A. Bonna Gift, 2005
Accession Number:
2005.75
  • Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

    Inscription: on the verso, center: arbre genealogique / union Hollande ….. Baviera(?) / fleuves et paysage de Hollande. Fleuves et paysage Bavier (Munich) / arbre d'Orange / vente wouernan(?) Anvers 1920

  • Provenance

    Vendor: Galerie Eric Coatalem, Paris

  • References

    Stijn Alsteens, Freyda Spira Dürer and Beyond: Central European Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1400-1700. New York, 2012, cat. 99 (entry written by Stijn Alsteens); p. xiv (introduction written by Stijn Alsteens); p. 219, ill.



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