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Joachim Lüchteke  (German, active 1595)

Date:
1595
Medium:
Pen and black ink, brush and coloured washes, heightened with white, over red chalk
Dimensions:
sheet: 8 1/16 x 6 in. (20.5 x 15.2 cm)
Classification:
Drawings
Credit Line:
Purchase, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund and Susan H. Seidel Gift, 2006
Accession Number:
2006.88

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

    Signature: Signed and dated in black ink on upper right recto: Jochim Luchteke von / Der Wißmer(?) / Ingelstadt 1595.

    Inscription: Pen and light brown ink on upper half verso: […] für das […] / Johannes von […] / von Bamberg (?) / geschrieben am 13. Oktober …(cut) / .89.(or .8g.). Inscription by later hand in point of the brush and black wash on lower half verso, (illegible). Annotated in graphite on lower left verso, EK 2624; and 'Free.'

    Marking: Museum stamp (Moravske zemske museum - Moravian Provincial Museum) on lower left verso with inventory number in black ink, 3267 (not in Lugt); unknown collector's mark (not in Lugt), of name: F. We [...], purple stamp on verso.

  • Provenance

    Arthur Feldmann (Brno, Czechoslovakia), (13 Mar 1939, confiscated by German Gestapo); Moravian Provincial Museum (Brno, Czechoslovakia), inventory number 3267; Moravská galerie (Brno, Czechoslovakia), in 1961; heirs of Arthur Feldmannin 2003; Sotheby's, London, July 6, 2005, lot 16; 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, cat. 71 (entry written by Freyda Spira); p. xi (introduction written by Stijn Alsteens), ill.



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