Design for a Window (Hunting Scene)

1579

Christoph Murer

Artist, Swiss, 1558 - 1614

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and black ink with touches of gray wash on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    Overall: 37 x 27.9 cm (14 9/16 x 11 in.)
    support: 42 x 32.8 cm (16 9/16 x 12 15/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1971.43.1

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1994

  • Fanciful Flourishes: Ornament in European Graphic Art and Related Objects, 1300-1800, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994.

Bibliography

1982

  • Kaufmann 1982, 12.

1985

  • Kaufmann, Thomas Dacosta. "A Census of Drawings from the Holy Roman Empire, 1540-1680, in North American Collections" Central European History xviii, 1 (1985):4-13, 70-74, 96.

Inscriptions

recto: lower left: CM / SZ / 1579; in later hand, lower left in graphite on mount: signed Christoph Murer & dated 1579; verso: none

Markings

none

Watermarks

to be identified

Wikidata ID

Q64540021

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