Lot Essay
This drawing can be dated by the watermark to the last few years of the 16th Century. Briquet suggests that the Basel crozier is the mark found on paper from the Basel papermaker Jerg Dürr.
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Apollo at the Castilian Spring, attended by the Muses and the Liberal Arts
Details
Circle of Hendrick Goltzius (M/uulbracht 1558-1617 Haarlem)
Apollo at the Castilian Spring, attended by the Muses and the Liberal Arts
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, pen and brown ink framing lines, watermark Basel crozier with star (similar to Briquet 1305)
6½ x 9 in. (164 x 226 mm.)
Apollo at the Castilian Spring, attended by the Muses and the Liberal Arts
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, pen and brown ink framing lines, watermark Basel crozier with star (similar to Briquet 1305)
6½ x 9 in. (164 x 226 mm.)
Provenance
J. MacGouan (L. 1496).