Saint Catherine Leaning on a Sword

Hans Baldung (called Hans Baldung Grien)  (German, Schwäbisch Gmünd (?) 1484/85–1545 Strasbourg (Strassburg))

Former Attribution:
Formerly attributed to Hans Schäufelein (German, Nuremberg ca. 1480–ca. 1540 Nördlingen)
Date:
ca. 1503–4
Medium:
Pen and brown ink
Dimensions:
10 13/16 x 5 1/4 in. (27.4 x 13.3 cm) (maximum dimensions)
Classification:
Drawings
Credit Line:
Purchase, Guy Wildenstein Gift and Ian Woodner Family Collection Fund, 2001
Accession Number:
2001.168
  • Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

    Inscription: Recto, bottom left, in pen and brown ink: 15144 (the last 4 written in a different hand) Recto, bottom left, in pen and brown ink: 18386 Verso, lower center, in graphite: Hans Leomiticus Schäufelein Verso, lower center, in graphite, illegible word Verso, lower center, in graphite: (?) XVI Verso, lower center, in graphite: Hans Baldung Grien Verso, bottom right corner, in graphite: 2001.168 Verso, right center, in pen ank ink: 79i

    Marking: Verso, upper right corner, stamp: ST No. 69 Verso, right center, collector's mark

  • Provenance

    Karl Eduard Liphart (1808–1891); Reinhold von Liphart (Ratshof, second half 19th century); C. G. Boerner, LeipzigApril 26, 1898, lot 44, as Hans Baldung Grien; Private Collection, Germany ; Sotheby's, New YorkJan.24, 2001 lot176 as Hans Leonhard Schäufelein; Vendor: Katrin Bellinger Kunsthandel , Munich

  • References

    Christian Müller Urs Graf, Die Zeichnungen im Kupferstichkabinett Basel Beschreibender Katalog der Zeichnungen, Band III, Die Zeichnungen des 15. und 16. Jahrhunderts Teil 2B. Basel, 2002, cat. no. under no. 041, p. 125, ill.

    Christie's, New York Old Master Drawings [Sale cat.: January 24, 2001]. New York, 2001, cat. no. 176, fig. no. 176, p. 210, ill.

    Charlotte von Prybram-Gladona Unbekannte Zeichnungen alter Meister aus Europäischen Privatbesitz. Prestel Verlag Munich, Munich, 1969, cat. no. 2, fig. no. 2, ill.



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