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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1965.345
People
Hans Suess von Kulmbach, German (1481 - 1522)
Title
Saint Nicholas
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1510
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/296400

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink, brown wash, and watercolor on off-white antique laid paper, cut out and laid down to cream antique laid paper
Dimensions
34.4 x 16.3 cm (13 9/16 x 6 7/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Wellesley. Ambroise Firmin-Didot, Paris (Lugt 119). Adalbert von Lanna, Prague. Max J. Bonn, London [sale, Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, London, February 15, 1922, lot 32]. [P. & D. Colnaghi, London] sold; to Paul J. Sachs, Cambridge, MA (by 1927), bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1965

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Meta and Paul J. Sachs
Accession Year
1965
Object Number
1965.345
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Katalog der berühmten sammlung des herrn barons Adalbert von Lanna in Prag: Volume II, Handzeichnungen alter meister und kupferstiche, etc., auct. cat., H. G. Gutekunst (Stuttgart, Germany, May 6 -11, 1910), cat. no. 196
  • Catalogue of the Very Important Collection of Drawings by the Old Masters, the Property of Max J. Bonn, Esq., Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge (London, February 15, 1922), lot 32, repr.
  • Hans Bermann, "Hans Süss von Kulmbach" (1922), Leipzig University, p. 32
  • Friedrich Winkler, "Verkannte und unbeachtete Zeichnungen des Hans von Kulmbach", Jahrbuch der Preussischen Kunstsammlungen (1929), vol. 50, pp. 11-44, p. 43
  • An Exhibition of European Art 1450-1500, Presented by the Rockefeller Foundation Interns of the Brooklyn Museum", exh. cat., Brooklyn Museum (Brooklyn, NY, 1936), no. 134, pl. 134
  • Franz Ira Stadler, Hans von Kulmbach, Verlag A. Schroll & Co., g.m.b.h. (Vienna, 1936), p. 112, no. 38, pl. 18
  • Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), no. 388, fig. 198
  • Marjorie B. Cohn, Wash and Gouache: A Study of the Development of the Materials of Watercolor, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1977), p. 11, cat. no. 32 p. 101
  • Konrad Oberhuber, European Master Drawings of Six Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, exh. cat., National Museum of Western Art (Tokyo, 1979), cat. no. 26, n.p., pl. 26, repr.
  • Barbara Butts, "'Dürerschüler' Hans Süss von Kulmbach" (1985), pp. 107-109, 18, 306, repr.
  • Barbara Butts, "Albrecht Dürer or Hans von Kulmbach? Two Designs for Triptychs in the Albertina", Master Drawings (1986), 23-24, no. 4, pp. 517-526, p. 521, repr.
  • Barbara Butts, "The Drawings of Hans Süss von Kulmbach", Master Drawings (2006), XLIV, no. 2, pp. 127-212, cat. no. A29, fig. 19 (color), p. 137

Exhibition History

  • An Exhibition of European Art 1450-1500, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, 05/08/1936 - 06/08/1936
  • Wash and Gouache: A Study of the Development of the Materials of Watercolor, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 05/12/1977 - 06/22/1977
  • European Master Drawing of Six Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 11/03/1979 - 12/16/1979

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