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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2008.239
People
Wolfgang Huber, German (1485 - 1553)
Title
View of Feldkirch; verso: Seated Woman Holding a Child
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1542
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/330696

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink on cream antique laid paper
Dimensions
30.8 x 20.8 cm (12 1/8 x 8 3/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: brown ink, lower left: k.23
  • inscription: black ink, center: 1542
  • watermark: Gothic P with a shield with an anchor and cross (Briquet 8751[?])

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Sale, Christie's, London, "Frühjahr 1929" [possibly February 11, 1929, lot 15, as "A River Scene, with tall trees and buildings, pen and ink 12 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches" by "A. Dürer" (not illustrated); if it was in this sale, then it was from the Richardson and Lord Somers Collections, according to the sale catalogue]; Dr. Nicolaas Beets, Amsterdam; [his sale, Mensing & Fils (Frederik Muller & Cie), Amsterdam, April 9-11, 1940, lot 68]; Walter Hugelshofer, Zurich (by 1965); John B. Davidson, Chicago (by 1969)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of John B. Davidson, in gratitude for his education in art history at Harvard
Accession Year
2008
Object Number
2008.239
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Peter Halm, "Die Landschaftszeichnungen des Wolfgang Huber", Münchner Jahrbuch der Bildenden Kunst (1930), N.F., VII, p. 104, no. 135
  • Peter Halm, Deutsche Zeichnungen 1400-1900, exh. cat. (Munich, 1956), p. 42, under no. 87
  • Otto Wutzel, Die Kunst der Donauschule, 1490-1540: Ausstellung des Landes Oberösterreich, exh. cat., Druckarbeit OÖ. Landesverlag (Linz, 1965), pp. 128-129, no. 313
  • Dieter Kuhrmann, Dürer und seine Zeit. Zeichnungen und Aquarelle aus den Sammlungen Biblioteca Ambrosiana Mailand, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München, exh. cat., Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München (Munich, 1967), p. 39, under no. 49
  • Alan Shestack and Charles Talbot, Prints and Drawings of the Danube School: An Exhibition of South German and Austrian Graphic Art of 1500 to 1560, exh. cat., Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven, 1969), p. 79, no. 81, pl. 46
  • Franz Winzinger, Wolfgang Huber 1485 (ca.)-1553: Das Gesamtwerk, Hirmer Verlag (Munich, 1979), vol. 1, pp. 43, 100, 101, no. 71c
  • British Museum collections website, website, 2009, under catalogue entry for Huber, "View of Feldkirch" (1883,0714.101)

Exhibition History

  • Die Kunst der Donauschule 1490-1540: Austellung des Landes Oberösterreich, Stift St. Florian und Schlossmuseum Linz, 05/14/1965 - 10/17/1965
  • Prints and Drawings of the Danube School: An Exhibition of South German and Austrian Graphic Art of 1500 to 1560, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 10/09/1969 - 11/16/1969; City Art Museum of St. Louis, St. Louis, 12/11/1969 - 01/25/1970; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 02/10/1970 - 03/24/1970
  • 32Q: 2540 Renaissance, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/16/2014 - 03/18/2015; Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/21/2022 - 07/25/2022

Verification Level

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