Head of a woman

Details

Ferdinand Hebenstreit (Munich, fl. 1590-1616)
Head of a woman
inscribed 'Nach Christoff. Schwarzen./ Nach gemahlt. Ano. .1.5.90. FH. (recto) and with inscription 'Grunert/ Nachlaß// Hebenstreit?' (verso)
black and red chalk on grey paper, watermark cross on a mountain in a circle
8 5/8 x 6 1/8 in. (22 x 15.5 cm)

Provenance

Bernhard Funck (1895-1993), Munich (L. 3835, twice).
Heinz Grunert (died 1997), Berlin and Cologne (L. 3985); Kunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne, 25 November 2000, lot 1464.
with Thomas Le Claire, Hamburg.

Literature

N. Strasser, Dessins des écoles du nord du XVe au XVIIIe siècle. Collection Jean Bonna, Geneva, 2013, no. 17, ill.

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Lot Essay

This may be the only known drawing by Ferdinand Hebenstreit, member of a family of Munich glass painters, whose authorship is attested by the monogram and the provenance, recorded on the sheet’s verso. The autograph inscription also indicates his model was a work by Christoph Schwarz, the Bavarian painter, although it has not been possible to identify the exact source. The drawing may have been made as a contribution to an album amicorum, a genre that was particularly popular in German-speaking lands (see F. Spira in Dürer and Beyond. Central European Drawings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1400-1700, exhib. cat., New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2012, pp. 154-162).

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