Studies for Six Figures (sheet from a model book) [recto], c. 1450/1460

Not on View

Medium

pen and black and brown ink with gray wash heightened with white on brown-gray prepared paper

Dimensions

overall: 14.7 x 19.2 cm (5 13/16 x 7 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Accession Number

1974.20.2.a

Artists / Makers

German 15th Century (artist)

Image Use

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Inscription

lower center in red chalk: 43

Provenance

A. Marquet de Vasselot [1840- 1904] (Lugt 2499); Dr. A. Ritter von Wurzbach-Tannenberg [1845-1915] (Lugt 2587). (Schaeffer Galleries, New York); acquired 1974 by NGA.

Associated Names

Schaeffer Galleries, Inc.

Exhibition History

1974: NGA Recent Acquisitions 1974, no. 2.

1979: Early German Drawings & Prints: Two Recent Acquisitions and Related Works, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1979, no. 1.