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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
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

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