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The Baptism of Christ: Design for a stained glass window
Details
Swiss School, late 16th Century
The Baptism of Christ: Design for a stained glass window
black chalk, pen and black ink, grey wash, watercolour on two joined sheets
391 x 330 mm.
The Baptism of Christ: Design for a stained glass window
black chalk, pen and black ink, grey wash, watercolour on two joined sheets
391 x 330 mm.
Provenance
P. Vischer (L. 2115 and L. 2116), his mount and inscription 'No. 105 Jesu Christ baptis par St. Jean, Desin antique d'un maitre inconnu' and 'Ce maitre est jean Memlinc. Le tableau, qui est une triptyque, est dans les salles de l'academie Bruges. Les ailes de ce triptyque reprsentant le donateur et ses fils, la donatrice et ses filles. Hans Holbein 45 l.'.
Sale room notice
The attribution should read "Daniel Lindtmayer the Younger (1552-1606)" Additional Provenance:
Pierre Bezine, Paris; Gallerie Fivez, Brussels, 15 June 1927, lot 54, pl. VIII (as Hans Holbein the Younger).
With Max Bing.
Literature:
F. Thne, Daniel Lindtmayer, 1552-1606: Die Schaffhauser Knstler-familie Lindtmayer, Schaffhausen, 1975, no. 322, fig. 378 (as Daniel Lindtmayer dating from 1596-7).
Friedrich Thne dated the drawing to 1596-7, following Lindtmayer's conversion to Catholicism. He also pointed out two other drawings of the same subject op. cit., nos. 200 and 203.
Pierre Bezine, Paris; Gallerie Fivez, Brussels, 15 June 1927, lot 54, pl. VIII (as Hans Holbein the Younger).
With Max Bing.
Literature:
F. Thne, Daniel Lindtmayer, 1552-1606: Die Schaffhauser Knstler-familie Lindtmayer, Schaffhausen, 1975, no. 322, fig. 378 (as Daniel Lindtmayer dating from 1596-7).
Friedrich Thne dated the drawing to 1596-7, following Lindtmayer's conversion to Catholicism. He also pointed out two other drawings of the same subject op. cit., nos. 200 and 203.