The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Allegory of Sculpture

Allegory of Sculpture

Date:: 1619
Medium:: Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash, heightened with white (partially oxidized), over traces of black chalk; framing lines in black ink
Dimensions:: 6-5/8 x 4 in. (16.9 x 10.2 cm)
Classification:: Drawings
Credit Line:: Gift of Katrin Bellinger, 1998
Accession Number:: 1998.41.6

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Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

Signature: Signed in pen and black ink along lower margin: "Joannes" / "Andreas Rauch in Wang."

Inscription: Dated on the tablet at lower left in pen and black ink: "Anno 1619" Numbered in a later hand, lower left corner, in pen and brown ink: "415" and in another hand in lower right corner: "432"
Provenance

Galerie Bassenge (Berlin)Auktion 70, Zeichnungen des deutschen Barock, November 28, 1997, no. 5478 (ill.); Donor: Katrin Bellinger Kunsthandel , Munich
See also
Who
Johann Andreas Rauch (1)
What
Ink (28,428)

Drawings (28,008)

Chalk (5,228)
Where
Europe (150,372)

Switzerland (1,007)
When
A.D. 1600-1800 (67,128)
In the Museum
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Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
Central Europe (including Germany), 1600–1800 A.D.
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