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The Circumcision

Hans Mielich  (German, Munich 1516–1573 Munich)

Date:
1516–73
Medium:
Brush and brown ink, brown wash, white and yellowish bodycolor
Dimensions:
sheet: 6 15/16 x 4 5/8 in. (17.6 x 11.7 cm)
Classification:
Drawings
Credit Line:
Purchase, Guy Wildenstein Gift, 2007
Accession Number:
2007.436
  • Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

    Inscription: Verso: lower center '44' in graphite (20th century handwriting); below 'Andrea Schiavone No. 4015 zj555 + [?]' in graphite (20th century handwriting).

    Marking: Lower right unrecognizable blindstamp (a letter in a circle?) - unidentified Collector's Mark (Lugt 1009) (?)

  • Provenance

    Private Collection, Wurich (acc. to Geissler's 1974 article, III); Katrin Bellinger Kunsthandel, Munich; Private Collection ; Vendor: Katrin Bellinger Kunsthandel , Munich

  • References

    Hundert Zeichnungen aus 5 Jahrhunderten. Galerie Kurt Meissner, Zurich, 1984, p. 27, note 5.

    Gabriele Wimböck Der Inglostädter Münsteraltar. Arbeitshefte des bayerische Landesamtes für Denkmalpflege, XCI, Munich, 1998, fig. no. 27, pp. 61, 67, ill.

    Terence Mullaly Disegni veronesi del Cinquencento. XXXII, Venice, Fondazione Cini, 1971, cat. no. 23, ill.

    Heinrich Geissler Der Hochaltar im Münster zu Ingolstadt und Hans Mielichs Entwürf Ingolstadt. Die Herzogsstadt, die Universitätsstadt, die Festung. Edited by Theodor Müller, Edited by Wilhelm Reissmüller, II, Ingolstadt, 1974, fig. no. 16, pp. 164, 167, ill.

    Heinrich Geissler Zeichnung in Deutschland: Deutsche Zeichner 1540-1640. Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Dec.1, 1979-Feb.17, 1980, cat. no. under A 30, vol. I, p. 32.

    Stijn Alsteens, Freyda Spira Dürer and Beyond: Central European Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1400-1700. New York, 2012, cat. 41 (entry written by Stijn Alsteens); p. xiv (introduction written by Stijn Alsteens), ill.



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