Ceres Changes Stellio into a Lizard

Provenance

Johann August Gottlieb Weigel [1773-1846], Leipzig; Theodore Oswald Weigel [1812-1881], Leipzig; (J.A.G. Weigel sale, Gutekunst, Stuttgart, 15 May 1883, no. 285). Richard von Kühlmann [1873-1948], Germany. Richard Holtkott [1866-1950], Bedburg. (sale, Stephan List, Frankfurt am Main, 10-11 October 1969, no. 120, as Elsheimer School). Kurt Meissner, Zurich. David Lachenmann, Munich; Wolfgang Ratjen, Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.

Ceres Changes Stellio into a Lizard

Elsheimer, Adam

1605/1608

Accession Number

2007.111.9

Medium

gouache and pen and brown ink on brown prepared paper

Dimensions

sheet: 11 x 6.8 cm (4 5/16 x 2 11/16 in.)

Classification

Drawing

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Purchased as the Gift of Ladislaus and Beatrix von Hoffmann