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The Last Judgment

Maker

After
(artist)
1548-1592

Title

The Last Judgment

Date of Production

1500 - 1599

Medium

pen and black and brown inks on laid paper, partially laid down on a support with gold ink borders

Dimensions

Height: 42.9 cm
Width: 33.5 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.2572

Mode of Acquisition

Robert Clermont Witt, bequest, 1952

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords

Label Text

In 1573, after a prolonged stay in Italy, Christoph Schwarz became the city painter of Munich and a leading court artist to its Catholic dukes. In the 1580s he was commissioned to execute the high altarpiece for the newly founded Jesuit church of St. Michael, the spiritual centre of the Counter Reformation in Germany. The success of the painting, showing St. Michael’s battle against the fallen angels, is documented in several variations by Schwarz, one of which is the Last Judgment depicted in this drawing.

Provenance

Dr Barry Delany, Kilkenny (1815-1888), L.350; Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Special Display - German drawings, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 21/06/2007-23/09/2007

German Art, 1400-1800, from collections in Great Britain, Manchester City Art Gallery & Manchester & England, 24/10/1961-10/12/1961

Literature

German Art, 1400-1800, from collections in Great Britain, Manchester City Art Gallery, 1961
cat. no. 170

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: lower centre: a quadruped, maybe a dragon? See photo in file, unable to discern clearly enough to identify.

Inscription: Recto: lower left corner, graphite: "Schwartz [?]". Verso: lower left corner, graphite: “Christopher Schwartz / B. 1550 / D. 1594” and below that “#11”; lower left corner, brown ink: “No. 84.” Support (historic), Recto: lower right, graphite: “MDL [?]” and below that “Christoff Schwartz”; lower left corner, graphite: “engraved” and beside that, underlined but erased and now illegible: “not […]”. Support (historic), Verso: lower left corner, graphite: “#11” and “A”.

Collector's mark: Verso: lower centre edge, written in brown ink: Barry Delany (L.350). According to the file there was also Sir Robert Witt's mark (L.2228b) on the verso, but this is no longer in evidence.

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