Inscription
Upper center in cartouche in gold: IGNIS; center right in black ink: ANIMALIA / RATIONALIA / ET / INSECTA; center left in gold: G; center right in gold: HF; lower center in black ink: Qui fecit Angelos spiritus suos: / Et ministros suos Ignem urentem. ("Who made your angels spirits: and your ministers a burning fire." Psalms 103:4) (Latin Vulgate Bible)
Provenance
Emperor Rudolf II of Austria?[1]; Secretarius Heinrich Hagen, Vienna, 1611.[2] Count Emanuel Maria Joseph von Arco, Munich, 1751.[3] Graf von Seinsheim, canon of Salzburg and Speyer, 1753. Master stonemason Rüpfel, Munich, c. 1830. Joseph Anton Niggl [1792 - 1842], Markt Tölz. Karl August von Brentano [1817 - 1896], Augsburg. (sale, Rudolph Weigel, 28 October 1861, no. 2220-a-d]; (Frederick Startridge Ellis [active 1860 - 1885], London; formerly identified as F. S. Eliot)[3]; Henry Huth [1815 - 1878], London; by descent to his son, Alfred Henry Huth [1850 - 1910], London; (sale, Sotheby's London, 12 June 1913, no. 3722); (William Wesley & Son, London); Charles Francis George Richard Schwerdt, Old Alresford House, Hampshire (his sale, Sotheby's London, 15 July 1946, no. 2216); (The Rosenbach Company, Philadelphia); Lessing J. Rosenwald, Jenkintown; given to Edith Goodkind Rosenwald, Jenkintown; gift to NGA, 1987.
Associated Names
A.S.W. Rosenbach GalleryArco, Emanuel Maria Joseph von Count
Brentano, Karl August von
Ellis, Frederick Startridge
Habsburg, Rudolph II Holy Roman Emperor
Hagen, Heinrich Secretarius
Huth, Alfred Henry
Huth, Henry
Niggl, Joseph Anton
Rosenwald, Lessing J., Mrs.
Rüpfel
Schwerdt, Charles Francis George Richard
Seinsheim Graf von
Sotheby's, London
Sotheby's, London
Weigel, Rudolph
William Wesley & Son
Exhibition History
- 1982
- Drawings from the Holy Roman Empire, 1540 - 1680, The Art Museum, Princeton University, National Gallery of Art, Museum of Art, Carnegie Insitute, Pittsburgh (exh. cat. by Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, no. 56.
- 1998
- A Collector's Cabinet, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1998, no. 76.
- 1999
- From Botany to Bouquets: Flowers in Northern Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1999, no. 45, as Iris from Animalia Rationalia et Insecta (Ignis).
- 2002
- Deceptions and Illusions: Five Centuries of Trompe l'Oeil Painting, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2002-2003, no. 30, as Ignis (Animalia Rationalia et Insecta) Plate 47.
Bibliography
- 1984
- Hendrix, Lee. Joris Hoefnagel and the Four Elements: a Study in Sixteenth-Century Nature Painting. Ph.D. dissertation, Princeton University, 1984 (series).
- 2017
- Vignau-Wilberg, Thea. Joris and Jacob Hoefnagel: Art and Science around 1600. Berlin, 2017: no. A6 (for series).
- 2019
- Bass, Marisa Ann. Insect Artifice: Nature and Art in the Dutch Revolt. Princeton, 2019 (for series).
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