Standing Youth with a Branch, c. 1325

Not on View

Medium

pen and black ink with orange tempera on vellum

Dimensions

overall: 13 x 5.4 cm (5 1/8 x 2 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Accession Number

1971.19.1

Artists / Makers

German 14th Century (artist)

Image Use

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Provenance

Eugène Rodrigues (sale, Frederik Muller, Amsterdam, 12-13 July 1921, no. 231, pl. LXXVII); to Steinmeyer; to Ludwig Rosenthal (Louis Randall); Robert Light; NGA purchase in 1971.

Associated Names

Light, Robert M., Mr.

Exhibition History

1974: NGA Recent Acquisitions, 1974, no. 1.

1978: Master Drawings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art and Promised Gifts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1978, p. 16.

1985: Figure Drawings from the National Gallery's Collection, Washington, D.C., 1985.

1994: Fanciful Flourishes: Ornament in European Graphic Art and Related Objects, 1300-1800, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994, as An Initial with a Standing Youth and Branch.

Bibliography

n.d.: Roland, Martin, and Andreas Zajic, "Les chartes médiévales enluminées dans les pays d'Europe centrale." Bibliothèque de l'École des Chartes 169 (2011): fig. 39b.

1938: Cauman, Samuel. "Two Drawings of Bohemian Alphabet Figures," Bulletin of the Fogg Art Museum, Studies of Master Drawings 8, no. 1 (November 1938): 4, 6-9.

1938: Parker, K. T. Catalogue of the Collection of Drawings in the Ashmolean Museum, Volume I, Netherlandish, German, French and Spanish Schools. Oxford, 1938: 167, no. 370 (as French, about 1300).

1940: Mongan, Agnes and Paul Sachs. Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art. Cambridge, Mass., 1940, under no. 366 (as German?, about 1300-1350).

1965: Memorial Exhibition, Works of Art from the Collection of Paul J. Sachs [1878-1965]. Exh. cat. Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Mass.; Museum of Modern Art, New York. New York, 1965: no. 1 (as German, late 14th c.).

1976: Jenni, Ulrike. Das Skizzenbuch der internationalen Gotik in den Uffizien, der Übergang vom Musterbuch zum Skizzenbuch. Vienna, 1976, vol. 1: 70-72.

2000: Whiteley, Jon. Ashmolean Museum Oxford, Catalogue of the Collection of Drawings, Volume VII, French School. Oxford, 2000: 25-26, under no. 1, fig. 2.