Feast in the House of Simon

Signature: Signed and dated, lower left center, in brown ink: "Dises ist gemalt worten in Rögenspurg/ bei die H:[errn] P:[atres] Cardeisser. a:[nno] 1699/ in den Jullij./ Steidl"

Inscription: Squaring numbered from left center, in brown ink: 1-13 and vertically in center, 1-8
Scale indicated, lower center, in brown ink
Lower right corner, in graphite: "N 53" [erased]
Verso, in brown ink, outline of a frame
Horizontal, graphite line across center
Lower right, in red crayon, in an 18th c. hand: "97" (?) [cut off by mat]
Upper center, in black chalk: "1650"
Lower center, illegible markings in brown ink
Mat, inscribed in graphite: "Baron Peter von Strudel (Cles [TYROL] 1660-1714 [VIENNA])/ "Jesus beim Gastmahl des Pharisaers Simon"/ Study for fresco in Stiftbibliothek in Kloster Lambach, Lambach (Oberöestreich)/ signed + dated 1699"

Marking: Verso, lower left, the collector's mark of Charles de Burlet (Lugt 4261); at lower right, erased markings in graphite or black chalk

Charles Albert de Burlet

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Drawings and Prints: Selections from the Permanent Collection," September 19, 2011–January 8, 2012.

Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann Central European Drawings 1680-1800: A Selection from American Collections. Exh. cat. Princeton University, The Art Museum (October 21-December 3, 1989) and Santa Barbara, The University Art Museum (January 10-February 25, 1990). Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton University, 1989, cat. no. 2, fig. no. 2, pp. 36-37, ill.

Josef Strasser Melchior Steidl (1657-1727): Die Zeichnungen. Salzburger Barockmuseum, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich and Berlin, Salzburg, 1999, cat. no. 6, pp. 4, 36, ill.

Peter Dreyer "Drawings by Melchior Michael Steidl for the Lost Summer Refectory at Karthaus-Prüll." Master Drawings. vol. 38, no. 1, 2000, fig. no. 1, pp. 62-65, ill.