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Allegory of the Transience of Life
Flying Putti, Surrounding Archangel Raphael
The Devil's Kitchen Visited by an Angel
(Rudolf Meyer's Todten-dants. Ergäntzet und herausgegeben von C. Meyern, Malern in Zürich, im Jahre 1650) Sterbensspiegel, das ist sonnenklare Vorstellung menschlicher Nichtigkeit durch alle Ständ' und Geschlechter
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This artwork is part of Dürer and Beyond: Central European Drawings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1400–1700
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Signature: Signed and dated on bottom right: Con. Meyer fecit. / A° 1649.Inscription: In graphite on old mat, below framing line, on left: 'Lugt Nr. 2115', in center: '244', on right: 'H. 12:5'. Annotated in black ink on old mat, lower right verso: 'N.° Depin de Conrad Meyer de Zurich, 1649'.Marking: Collector's stamp of Peter Vischer in black ink, lower left corner on old mat: "PV" (Lugt 2115)
Peter Vischer (Basel, 1751–1823); Schuler Auktionen, December 10, 2004, lot 4380; C. G. Boerner LLC, New York ; Galerie Bassenge (Berlin), December 1, 2005, lot 5612; Vendor: Katrin Bellinger Kunsthandel , Munich
Old Master Drawings Sotheby's New York. 2011, cat. no. under lot 571, 86.Kunst des 15.-19. Jahrhunderts Miscellaneen & Trouvaillen des 15.-19. Jahrhunderts Galerie Gerda Bassenge. 2005, cat. no. 5612, 234, ill.Stijn Alsteens, Freyda Spira Dürer and Beyond: Central European Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1400-1700. New York, 2012, cat. 92 (entry written by Freyda Spira); p. xiv (introduction written by Stijn Alsteens); p. 83, note 2, ill.
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