PROVENANCE
Prints and a Few Drawings from Great Collections of the Past
Prints and a Few Drawings from Great Collections of the Past
- Master MR, Christ on the Cross
- Dürer, St. Bartholomew
- Dürer, Christ Before Caiaphas
- Raimondi, Philosophy
- Raimondi, Façade with Caryatids
- Beham, Job Conversing
- Beham, Satyr Sounding a Horn
- Beham, Peasant Couple Walking
- Caraglio, Martyrdom of St. Paul
- Aldegrever, Standard Bearer
- Pencz, Feeding the Hungry
- Pencz, Artemisia Preparing
- Falconetto, Tomb Surmounted
- Claesz, St. Peter Seated
- Treu, Noble Dancers
- Master FP, Hercules Killing
- Brun, February
- Solis, Arithmetria
- de Bruyn, The Circumcision
- Sadeler, Virgin and Child
- Goltzius, A Young Man
- Matham, The Planets
- Brizio, Extensive Landscape
- van de Velde, Fête Villageoise
- van de Velde, Backgammon
- van Uyttenbroek, Tobias
- van Uyttenbroek, Bacchus
- Rembrandt, The Small Lion Hunt
- Hollar, Woman with Headdress
- Saftleven, Dutch Peasant
- Ostade, Bust of a Peasant
- Stoop, A Grazing Horse
- Fyt, Set of Animals
- Bega, The Three Drinkers
- Anonymous, Landscape
- Nanteuil, Charles Benoise
- Nanteuil, Cardinal Mazarin
- Nanteuil, Pierre Seguier
- van Vliet, St. Jerome Sitting
- Cossin, Ornament Design
- Sirani, St. Eustace
- Somer, Hagar and Ishmael
- Daullé, La Muse Clio
- Tiepolo, The Holy Family
- MacArdell, Hannah, Mrs. Horneck
- Laurie, Elizabeth, Dutchess
- Denon, Village Scene
- Charlet, Les Français
- Pieraccini, Holy Family
- Daumier, Y n’y a rien comm’
- Daubigny, Les Ruines du Chateau
- Daubigny, Lever de Lune
- Meryon, Le Petit Pont
- Rops, La Poupée du Satyre
- Whistler, Old Hungerford Bridge
- Legros, Un Coin de Rivière
- Buhot, Frontispice
- Forain, La Rencontre
- Pennell, Hampton Court Palace
- Delâtre, Silhouette de Femme
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12. Georg Pencz (ca. 1500-1550) Artemisia Preparing to Drink the Ashes of Her Husband |
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Artemisia Preparing to Drink the Ashes of Her Husband
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Engraving, ca. 1539, 190 x 134 mm., Bartsch 83, Landau 91 a (of b). A very fine, sharp impression on laid paper with a complex but difficult to decipher watermark, trimmed to the subject, ca. 2 mm. into the subject at the top, removing the top of the escutcheon, but with apparently 1 mm. more at the right than the impressions illustrated in Bartsch and Landau; tiny surface loss at the right bottom. Artemisia was the widow of Mausolus, a satrap of Caria in Asia Minor. She erected a great monument to his memory at Halicarnassus (hence, the word mausoleum), which was one of the seven wonders of the world. According to legend, she mixed the ashes of Mausolus in liquid which she then drank, becoming a living tomb. Accordingly, she symbolizes a widow's devotion to her husband's memory.
Provenance:
Wilhelm Drugulin (Lugt 2612). Drugulin (1825-1879), who was based in Leipzig, was one of the most important and influential print dealers of his time, and the catalogs he issued were, in many cases, ground breaking in their scholarship. In his later years he grew less interested in commerce and more in building his own personal collection. His inventory, containing many superb and rare prints, was sold in various auctions in Paris, Leipzig and London during his lifetime, but his personal collection, which contained such unbelievable rarities as a niello by Finiguerra and landscapes by Hercules Seghers, was dispersed only after his death.
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