Adam Elsheimer (1578-1610)

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Adam Elsheimer (1578-1610)

A Satyr playing Pipes to Satyrs in a Wood

pen and brown ink, brown and grey wash heightened with white (oxidized) 60 x 43mm.
Provenance
R. Houlditch (L. 2214)
H. Weizsäcker
A. Holthusen, Hamburg
Literature
H. Möhle, Die Zeichnungen Adam Elsheimers, Berlin, 1966, no. 41, pl. 24
Exhibited
Frankfurt, Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Adam Elsheimer, 1966-7, no. 142

Lot Essay

Comparable studies are at Frankfurt, Dresden and Hamburg, H. Möhle, op. cit., pls. 37, 39 and 40. The present drawing was not included in Keith Andrew's monograph on the artist

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