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Episode from the "Gesta Romanorum": The Emperor and the Page

Jörg Breu the Elder  (German, Augsburg 1480–1537 Augsburg)

Date:
1500–1537
Medium:
Pen and black ink, gray wash. Framing line in pen and black ink.
Dimensions:
diameter: 7 13/16 in. (19.8 cm)
Classification:
Drawings
Credit Line:
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 2009
Accession Number:
2009.446

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

    Inscription: At lower right, spuriously monogrammed "AG" (for Aldegraver) in pen and brown ink. On the verso of the mount: at upper right, numbered "9" in graphite (modern handwriting); at centre, numbered "126" in graphite (19th- or 20th-century handwriting); at lower left, numbered "28" in pen and brown ink (18th- or 19th-century handwriting); at lower left, inscribed "Charlemagne recevant la Justice" in graphite (19th- or 20th-century handwriting); below, inscribed "Jorg Breu vers 1575/Ecl d Augsbourg" in graphite (20th-century handwriting).

  • Provenance

    Sotheby's, New York, 28 January 2009, lot 42; 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. 22 (entry written by Stijn Alsteens); p. 60, under cat. 27; p. xi (introduction written by Stijn Alsteens), ill.



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