"I Am Holding a Wolf by the Ears" (verso)

Provenance

(Sale, London, Sotheby's, 13 July 1937, lot 64); (sale, London, Sotheby's, 15-17 November 1937, lot 546); (sale, London, Maggs Bros., Ltd., catalogue 709, 1941, no. 30); (purchased by William H. Schab Gallery via Paul Graupe); purchased by Ian Woodner, New York, by 1973; by inheritance to his daughters, Andrea and Dian Woodner, New York, 1990.

"I Am Holding a Wolf by the Ears" (verso)

French early 16th Century

c. 1512/1515

Accession Number

2006.11.34.b

Medium

pen and brown and black ink, heightened with gold on laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 16.3 × 21.4 cm (6 7/16 × 8 7/16 in.)

Classification

Drawing

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

Woodner Collection, Gift of Andrea Woodner