River Landscape

1544

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and black ink with white heightening on red-brown prepared paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall: 20.6 x 31.8 cm (8 1/8 x 12 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    1971.66.6

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Mr. [d. 1970] and Mrs. Lester Francis Avnet, Great Neck, Long Island, NY; purchased 19 October 1971 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1974

  • NGA Recent Acquisitions 1974, no. 9 (as Nuremberg Master (Monogrammist P.S.?)

1977

  • Paper in Prints, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1977, no. 78.

1978

  • Master Drawings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art and Promised Gifts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1978, p. 27.

1979

  • Early German Drawings & Prints: Two Recent Acquisitions and Related Works, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1979, no. 11.

Bibliography

1982

  • Kaufmann 1982, 5 (as Master HWG (?)).

1984

  • Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 661, no. 1041, color repro.

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, 94.

Inscriptions

falsely dated, upper center in white and black ink: 1514 (originally 1544); inscribed below date by a later hand: AD

Wikidata ID

Q64571883

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