Plate 41: Two Gray Geese with Songbirds in a Cherry Tree, c. 1575/1580

Inscription

Upper center in blue/black ink: LAMPON IVRAT PER ANSEREM.; center right in (gold?): XXXXI.; birds in image numbered .1., .2., .3., .4., .5., .6., .7., .8., and .9., in red ink
Facing page: Upper center in black/violet ink: Respicite volatilia Coeli, quia non serunt / neq[ue] metunt; lower center in black ink: :1: :2: / Haec sernavit avis Tarpeii templa tonantis / Miraris? nundum fecerat illa Deus.

Provenance

Emperor Rudolph of Austria; Lessing J. Rosenwald, Alverthorpe, PA; gift to NGA, 1987.

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.

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.

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