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Male Nude Lying on a Table

Monogrammist AW  (German, active ca. 1567 (?))

Date:
1567 (?)
Medium:
Brush and black wash, watercolor, gouache
Dimensions:
sheet: 13 7/16 x 10 5/8 in. (34.1 x 27 cm)
Classification:
Drawings
Credit Line:
Purchase, Charles and Jessie Price Gift, 2007
Accession Number:
2007.267
  • Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

    Signature: Upper center, signed and dated in brush and black wash: .1.5. AW. 07

    Inscription: Verso: lower right, the inscription H2 with pencil (20th century?)

    Marking: Verso: lower left, the collector's mark of August Artaria (L. 33)

  • Provenance

    August Artaria, Vienna, sale, Artaria, May 6-13, 1896, lot 1132; Reiss & Sohn, October 29, 2005, lot 6659; 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. 39 (entry written by Stijn Alsteens); p. xii (introduction written by Stijn Alsteens), ill.

    Georg Caspar Nagler Die Monogrammisten. Munich, 1858-1879, cat. no. I, under 1491, p. 666.



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