The Last Judgment

Michael Herr  (German, Metzingen bei Reutlingen 1591–1661 Nuremberg)

Date:
1615–20
Medium:
Pen and black ink with gray wash over black chalk
Dimensions:
12 11/16 x 15 3/4 in. (32.3 x 40 cm)
Classification:
Drawings
Credit Line:
Gift of Katrin Bellinger, 1998
Accession Number:
1998.41.3
  • Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

    Inscription: Inscribed, bottom right edge, in brown ink: "19" Verso, right side, some figures traced in pen and black ink from the recto Upper right corner, in graphite: "20 t (or f)"

    Marking: Bottom center, faint collector's mark in violet ink: "J.T." (Lugt Suppl. 1539c, unidentified collector) Watermark: Arms of Nuremberg (see Online-Piccard no. 25123 and 25127, used on paper from Nuremberg, 1620 and 1621 respectively).

  • Provenance

    Private Collection Lugt 1539c, unidentified mark, known to collect seventeenth century Dutch drawings.; Galerie Bassenge (Berlin), November 28, 1997, lot 5458Auction 70, November 28, 1997, lot 5458; Donor: Katrin Bellinger Kunsthandel , Munich

  • References

    Zeichnungen des Deutschen Barock Galerie Gerda Baseenge Berlin. Berlin, November 28, 1997, cat. no. 5458, 22, ill.

    Stijn Alsteens, Freyda Spira Dürer and Beyond: Central European Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1400-1700. New York, 2012, cat. 81 (entry written by Freyda Spira), ill.



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