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Three Scenes from the Life of the Prophet Daniel

Jost Amman  (Swiss, Zurich before 1539–1591 Nuremberg)

Date:
1564
Medium:
Pen and black ink. Framing line in pen and black ink.
Dimensions:
sheet: 12 3/16 x 8 7/16 in. (30.9 x 21.5 cm)
Classification:
Drawings
Credit Line:
Edward Pearce Casey and Ian Woodner Family Collection Funds, 2009
Accession Number:
2009.335
  • Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

    Signature: At lower right, monogrammed and dated "IAG 1564" in pen and black ink.

    Inscription: On the verso: at lower right, inscribed "Gilhug" in graphite (19th-century handwriting).

  • Provenance

    Wilhelm Adam Thierry (German, 1761–1823), Meiningen; later to his his descendants; art market, Coburg; Ernst Friedrich Redslob (German, born 1851), Weimar, acquired in 1910; Gilhofer & Ranschburg, ViennaJune 28, 1934, lot 5; Hollstein und Puppel, BerlinFebruary 27-28, 1933, lot 574; Private Collection, Berlin, 1940; Dr. Hugo von Ziegler (1890 - 1966); Sotheby's, New York, 28 January 2009, lot 9; Vendor: Katrin Bellinger Kunsthandel , Munich

  • References

    Ariane Mensger Leuchtende Beispiele, Zeichnungen für Glasmälde aus Renaissance und Manierismus. 2009, cat. no. under cat. 71, 137, note 4.

    Kurt Pilz "Die Zeichnungen und das graphische Werk des Jost Ammann (1539-1591)" Anzeiger für Schweizerische Altertumkunde| Indicateur d'antiquités suisses. N.F., XXXV, 1933, opposite p. 96, cat. no. 46, fig. no. Taf. VI, 94, 293, ill.

    Stijn Alsteens, Freyda Spira Dürer and Beyond: Central European Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1400-1700. New York, 2012, cat. 44 (entry written by Freyda Spira), p. xi (introduction written by Stijn Alsteens).



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