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Drawing of seated man, seated woman, and standing woman with figures in the background.

On a hill in front of a tangle of tree limbs, a young woman, nude from the waist up, sits beside an older, bearded man. She holds his left hand, pulling his arm and twisting his body. His right leg is crossed over his left, extending toward the viewer. He drinks from a vessel held by a woman on the right with her back to us. Her top half is nude. Her lower garment is sheer. With her right hand she holds a jug on a pedestal. In the distance are more figures, buildings, and plumes of smoke or clouds.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
2018.41
People
Jost Amman, Swiss (Zurich, Switzerland 1539 - 1591 Nuremberg, Germany)
Title
Lot and His Daughters
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1570
Culture
Swiss
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/360778

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink and gray wash on off-white antique laid paper
Dimensions
19.8 × 30.3 cm (7 13/16 × 11 15/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: lower left, black ink: 1576 [or 1570]
  • inscription: lower left, black ink: 68
  • collector's mark: lower right, blue ink: [mark of Carl Rolas du Rosey, Lugt 2237]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Carl Rolas du Rosey (died 1862), Dresden (Lugt 2237). Busch, circa 1920. [Hollstein und Puppel, Berlin], sold; to Hugo von Ziegler (1890-1966), Schaffhausen, by descent; to his children, 1966, sold; [through Hôtel Drouot, commissaire-priseur Christophe Joron-Derem, December 13, 2017], sold; to Harvard Art Museums, 2017

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Richard Norton Memorial Fund, and through the generosity of Julie and David M. Tobey
Accession Year
2018
Object Number
2018.41
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Ventes aux enchères publiques: Collection von Ziegler-Schindler: Dessins anciens, auct. cat., Hôtel Drouot (Paris, December 13, 2017), pp. 14-15, 74, repr. pp. 14-15

Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 2540 Renaissance, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/13/2020 - 07/27/2021

Verification Level

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