Joseph Heintz the Elder* (1564-1609)

Two partly draped female Nudes playing the Flute

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Joseph Heintz the Elder* (1564-1609)
Two partly draped female Nudes playing the Flute
with inscriptions 'Auszug Was ich dem Wohlgebornen Herren, Herrn Paul Sixt Praulheim, Freyherrn gemacht ha[b] den2ten Juli hab ich Euer Gnade ein gemains Schlagwerck zugericht und daran verdient mer ein kleines zeigentz bretzlin wiederum zugericht hab ein kleines Schlagwerck mandelin zugericht hab davon vrdient [in] Julius Euer Gnaden ein demantlin zuschneiden und ballieren lassen Item ein Schlagwerck wlliches inwendig wiederum zugericht und genommen 10x Mehr zwei schlagende Rahmen verguldt und zugericht dazu empfangen hab ich von macherlohn daran verdient... an dem 27 November hab ich ein neu runden Knopf oder Kugel druf gemach kost per...' (verso)
red chalk, pen and brown ink, fragmentary watermark
6.3/8 x 5in. (163 x 146 mm.)

拍品專文

Dr. Jrgen Zimmer confirmed the attribution to the present owner in a letter dated 17 July 1994. He compares it with several drawings dating from the last decade of the 16th Century: the loose handling of the pen is similar to Heintz's portrait of Sadeler in Munich (J. Zimmer, Joseph Heintz der Altere. Zeichnungen und Dokumente, Munich 1988, A 49), and to Saint Barbara in Budapest, J. Zimmer, op. cit., A 71. The type of the anatomy is characteristic of Heintz and can be found in Venus, Satyr and Cupid (J. Zimmer, op. cit., A 47), while the facial types are close to those in Without Ceres and Bacchus, Venus would freeze in Frankfurt a.M., J. Zimmer, op. cit., A 57. On the basis of these comparisons, Zimmer suggests a dating of Women playing the Flute to the second half of the 1590s.
The drawing is executed on the back of a discarded piece of paper with commissions to an Augsburg or Prague clockmaker. The orders comes from various figures from the court of Rudolf II, including Paul Sixt Trautson, President of the Privy Council, who was made count in 1598 and left the court in 1600. This confirms Zimmer's dating, as Trautson's name is that used by him before 1598 when he was not yet a count. A drawing of a Nymph in Budapest (J. Zimmer, op. cit., A 67), was equally drawn on such a discarded sheet from the same provenance as the present one, as the handwritings are the same.
Dr. Zimmer will include the drawing in an addendum to Heintz's catalogue raisonn.