PROVENANCE
Prints and a Few Drawings from Great Collections of the Past
  1. Master MR, Christ on the Cross
  2. Dürer, St. Bartholomew
  3. Dürer, Christ Before Caiaphas
  4. Raimondi, Philosophy
  5. Raimondi, Façade with Caryatids
  6. Beham, Job Conversing
  7. Beham, Satyr Sounding a Horn
  8. Beham, Peasant Couple Walking
  9. Caraglio, Martyrdom of St. Paul
  10. Aldegrever, Standard Bearer
  11. Pencz, Feeding the Hungry
  12. Pencz, Artemisia Preparing
  13. Falconetto, Tomb Surmounted
  14. Claesz, St. Peter Seated
  15. Treu, Noble Dancers
  16. Master FP, Hercules Killing
  17. Brun, February
  18. Solis, Arithmetria
  19. de Bruyn, The Circumcision
  20. Sadeler, Virgin and Child
  21. Goltzius, A Young Man
  22. Matham, The Planets
  23. Brizio, Extensive Landscape
  24. van de Velde, Fête Villageoise
  25. van de Velde, Backgammon
  26. van Uyttenbroek, Tobias
  27. van Uyttenbroek, Bacchus
  28. Rembrandt, The Small Lion Hunt
  29. Hollar, Woman with Headdress
  30. Saftleven, Dutch Peasant
  31. Ostade, Bust of a Peasant
  32. Stoop, A Grazing Horse
  33. Fyt, Set of Animals
  34. Bega, The Three Drinkers
  35. Anonymous, Landscape
  36. Nanteuil, Charles Benoise
  37. Nanteuil, Cardinal Mazarin
  38. Nanteuil, Pierre Seguier
  39. van Vliet, St. Jerome Sitting
  40. Cossin, Ornament Design
  41. Sirani, St. Eustace
  42. Somer, Hagar and Ishmael
  43. Daullé, La Muse Clio
  44. Tiepolo, The Holy Family
  45. MacArdell, Hannah, Mrs. Horneck
  46. Laurie, Elizabeth, Dutchess
  47. Denon, Village Scene
  48. Charlet, Les Français
  49. Pieraccini, Holy Family
  50. Daumier, Y n’y a rien comm’
  51. Daubigny, Les Ruines du Chateau
  52. Daubigny, Lever de Lune
  53. Meryon, Le Petit Pont
  54. Rops, La Poupée du Satyre
  55. Whistler, Old Hungerford Bridge
  56. Legros, Un Coin de Rivière
  57. Buhot, Frontispice
  58. Forain, La Rencontre
  59. Pennell, Hampton Court Palace
  60. Delâtre, Silhouette de Femme

11. Georg Pencz
(ca. 1500-1550)
Feeding the Hungry

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Pencz, Feeding the Hungry

Feeding the Hungry

Other Images:

Engraving, 1534, from The Seven Works of Mercy, 55 mm. dia., Bartsch 58, Landau 61 only state b (of c). This is the first of the set of the Seven Works and also Pencz’s earliest dated print. Very fine, rich impression on laid paper and with square margins outside the circular platemark. Landau’s “a” impressions are with a dot between the word Speis and the following letter T. This is impossible to see in catalog reproductions. This impression, still clearly early, still shows the traces of the GP monogram in the right window, as do the “a” impressions. In “c” impressions it has disappeared.

Provenance:
Graf Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg (Lugt 2669). Count Ludwig (1805-1865), with the later help of his son Count Paul (1835-1897) and grandson Count Heinrich (1861-1923) built, in Silesia, a staggering collection of German prints of the 15th and 16th centuries, including rare sheets by the Master of the Berlin Passion, the Master E.S., Schongauer, Dürer, Baldung and Altdorfer among others. The collection was maintained through three generations, the majority of it being sold in 1923 through C. G. Boerner, and the remainder, anonymously in Switzerland in 1948.