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Allegory of the Transience of Life

Christian Richter  (German, Altenburg ca. 1585/90–1667 Weimar)

Date:
1618
Medium:
Pen and ink, brush and brown, blue and pink wash, heightened with white gouache
Dimensions:
sheet: 5 x 5 15/16 in. (12.7 x 15.1 cm)
Classification:
Drawings
Credit Line:
Purchase, Guy Wildenstein Gift, 2007
Accession Number:
2007.123

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: In pen and ink in the lower right corner: Christian Richter, Mahler

    Inscription: In pen and ink in the upper center: Hodie Mihi Cras Tibi; in the upper left corner: Hier Zeidlich/ Dordt Ewig/ Danach Richt dich Dedication inscribed in pen and ink on the lower left margin: Meinem lieben Brudher Abrah. Richter - in Brüderlicher Liebe, / undt Gedechtnis geschrieben zu Weimar den 28 Juli A 1618, C.

  • Provenance

    Galerie Bassenge (Berlin), May 26, 2006, lot 5611; Vendor: Katrin Bellinger Kunsthandel , Munich

  • References

    Kunst des 15.-19. Jahrhunderts Kunst- und Buchauktionen, Galerie Gerda Bassenge. Berlin, May 26, 2006, cat. no. 5611, 254, ill.

    Stijn Alsteens, Freyda Spira Dürer and Beyond: Central European Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1400-1700. New York, 2012, cat. 73 (entry written by Freyda Spira); p. 154, ill.



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