Description
This late drawing reveals the melding of northern and southern Baroque influences that characterized the cosmopolitan court of Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II (1552-1612). The drawing may relate to a painting of this subject, now lost, that was listed in the Emperor's inventory.
Provenance
Cornelis Ploos van Amstel (1726-1798), Amsterdam, dry-stamp (Lugt 2034) verso. Hill-Stone Inc., New York [according to documentation in curatorial file]. Sold by Lutz Riester, London and New York, to the Art Institute, 1991.
Accession Number
111740
Medium
Black chalk and brush and gray wash, heightened with touches of white gouache, over traces of charcoal, on cream laid paper
Dimensions
18.9 × 14.8 cm (7 1/2 × 5 7/8 in.)
Classification
chalk
Credit Line
Margaret Day Blake and Harold Joachim Endowments
