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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1949.1
People
Albrecht Dürer, German (Nuremberg 1471 - 1528 Nuremberg)
Title
Susanna of Bavaria
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1525
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/303843

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black chalk with touches of white chalk on green prepared antique laid paper
Dimensions
40.3 x 29.4 cm (15 7/8 x 11 9/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • collector's mark: verso, lower left, stamp: A.F.D. [Armin Firmin-Didot; Lugt 119]
  • collector's mark: verso, lower left, stamp: J.P.H. [John Postle Heseltine; Lugt 1507]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
General Antoine-François Andreossy (possibly by 1809-1828); to his heirs, sold [through Andreossy sale, Hotel des Commissaires-Priseurs, April 13-16, 1864, lot 75]. Ambroise Firmin-Didot, Paris, France (?-1877), sold; [at his sale, Drouot, Paris, France, April 16- May 12, 1877, lot 21]. John Postle Heseltine, London, England. [P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., London, England (by 1918-1922), sold September 1922]; to Paul J. Sachs, Cambridge, MA (1922-1949), gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1949.

Notes:
1. According to the May 22, 1864 issue of La Chronique des Arts et de la Curiosité (a supplement to the Gazette des Beaux-Arts), the Andreossy collection was sold in Spring 1864, although Andreossy had passed away in 1828. Andreossy likely originally acquired the drawing when he was the military governor of Vienna in 1809.
2. Ambroise Firmin-Didot, 1790-1876 (Lugt 119)
3. John Postle Heseltine, 1843-1929 (Lugt 1507)
4. The drawing was not sold in the Heseltine sale at Frederik Muller & Co., Amsterdam, May 27-28, 1913, listed under Lugt 1507.
5. Per the drawing’s catalogue entry for the 1965-67 Paul J. Sachs Memorial Exhibition, Sachs expressed interest in the drawing when he first saw it at P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. in London in 1918.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Meta and Paul J. Sachs
Accession Year
1949
Object Number
1949.1
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • "Vente de la Collection Andreossy", La Chronique des Arts et de la Curiosité, supplément à la Gazette des Beaux-Arts (Paris, France, May 22, 1864), no. 66, pp. 161-162, p. 162 [as "portrait d'une jeune dame portant son petit chien"]
  • Catalogue de la Collection de Tableaux et Dessins Anciens des Écoles Allemande, Française, Flamande, Hollandaise & Italienne formée par feu M. le Général Comte Andreossy, auct. cat., Hôtel Drouot (PAris, April 12-16, 1864), p. 16, lot 75 as "Portrait d'une jeune dame tenant son petit chien."
  • Charles Ephrussi, Albert Dürer et ses dessins, Maison Quantin (Paris, 1882), p. 331
  • Friedrich Lippmann, Zeichnungen von Albrecht Dürer, George Grote (Berlin, 1883-1929), vol 2., cat. 172 p. 22, repr. as pl. 172
  • Campbell Dodgson, "A Newly Discovered Portrait Drawing by Dürer", Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs (August 1903), vol. 2, no. 6, pp. 286-287, 289-291, pp. 289-291, repr. p. 291
  • Campbell Dodgson, Dürer Society (London, 1903), pl. XIII, p. 7
  • Max J. Friedlander and Elfried Bock, Handzeichnungen deutscher Meister des 15 und 16 Jahrhunderts, Propyläen Verlag (Berlin, 1921), pl. 34
  • Original Drawings Chiefly of the German School in the Collection of J.P.H., Autotype Co. (London, 1921), no. 14, repr.
  • Eduard Flechsig, Albrecht Dürer: sein Leben und seine Künstlerische Entwickelun, G. Grote (Berlin, 1928-1931), vol. 2, pp. 310ff, and no. 1261
  • Hans Tietze and Erika Tietze-Conrat, Kritisches Verzeichnis der Werke Albrecht Dürers, Holbein-Verlag (Leipzig, Germany, 1928-1938), vol. 2, no. 941 p. 55, repr. p. 197 as fig. 941
  • Master Drawings, Selected from the Museums and Private Collections of America, exh. cat., Buffalo Fine Arts Academy/Albright Art Gallery (Buffalo, NY, 1935), no. 23, repr.
  • Friedrich Winkler, Die Zeichnungen Albrecht Dürers, Deutscher Verein für Kunstwissenschaft (Berlin, Germany, 1936-1939), vol. 4, no. 914 pp. 84-85, repr. as pl. 914
  • Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), no. 378, fig. 193
  • Agnes Mongan, Memorial Exhibition: Works of Art from the Collection of Paul J. Sachs [1878-1965]: given and bequeathed to the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, exh. cat., Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, 1965), cat. no. 12, repr.
  • Vojtech Jirat-Wasiutynski and Thea Jirat-Wasiutynski, "The Uses of Charcoal in Drawing", Arts Magazine (October 1980), vol. 55, no. 2, pp. 128-135, p. 130, fig. 3
  • Charles Werner Haxthausen, The Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University, Abbeville Press (New York, NY, 1980), p. 143, repr.
  • Masterpieces of world art : Fogg Art Museum, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1997
  • "Calendar: Events for the two weeks beginning October 8th 1998", Harvard University Gazette, Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, October 8, 1998), vol. XCIV, no. 4, repr. p. 15
  • Edward Saywell, Behind the Line: The Materials and Techniques of Old Master Drawings, Harvard University Art Museums Bulletin, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, 1998), vol. 6, no. 2, checklist no. 9, p. 26
  • Penley Knipe, "Grounds on Paper: An Examination of Eight Early Drawings" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 1998), Unpublished, pp. 1-22 passim
  • Les Marques de Collections de Dessins & d'Estampes, website, Fondation Custodia, 2015, under L.119

Exhibition History

  • Master Drawings, Selected from the Museums and Private Collections of America, Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Buffalo, 01/01/1935 - 01/31/1935
  • Drawings from the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University (Collected by Paul J. Sachs), Century Club, New York, 05/12/1947 - 09/25/1947
  • Memorial Exhibition: Works of Art from the Collection of Paul J. Sachs [1878-1965] Given and Bequeathed to the Fogg Art Museum Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 11/15/1965 - 01/15/1966; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 12/19/1966 - 02/26/1967
  • Northern Renaissance Art: Selected Works, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 02/28/1984 - 04/08/1984
  • The Heavenly Twins: Edward W. Forbes, Paul J. Sachs and the Building of a Collection, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/23/1995 - 12/17/1995
  • Behind the Line: The Materials and Techniques of Old Master Drawings, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/03/1998 - 12/30/1998
  • The Portrait, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 10/15/2004 - 01/09/2005
  • Re-View: S426A (Large Niche) HAA252k The Age of Durer, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 11/13/2008 - 02/06/2009

Subjects and Contexts

  • Collection Highlights

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