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Copy after Hans Holbein the younger's 'Madonna of the Burgomaster Meyer Family' (Staedel Museum, Frankfurt)

Maker

(artist)
1628-1671

Copy after
Bartholomäus Sarburgh (artist)
1590-1637

Copy after
(artist)
1497-1543

Title

Copy after Hans Holbein the younger's 'Madonna of the Burgomaster Meyer Family' (Staedel Museum, Frankfurt)

Date of Production

1600 - 1699

Medium

graphite, pen and brown ink, brown wash on laid paper, with brown ink framing lines, partly executed using a compass

Dimensions

Height: 20.3 cm
Width: 29.5 cm

Accession Number

D.1978.XX.1

Mode of Acquisition

Jan van Gelder, gift, 1978

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

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Provenance

possibly brought to England in 1723; Sir Anthony Westcombe (d. 1752); by descent to his cousin, Bernard Granville; probably by descent to his sister, Mary Delany (1700-1788); possibly Westcombe sale, Puttick & Simpson (London), 22 December 1857, lot 6; Jan Gerrit van Gelder (1903-1980); given by him to The Courtauld, 1978

Literature

Gelder, J.G. van, 'Jan de Bisschop' in 'Oud Holland', 1971
n. 56 on p. 214

Disegni di Jan de Bisschop detto Giovanni Episcopio, Istituto universitario olandese di storia dell'arte, Florence, 1971
no. 27

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: centre: bunch of grapes with curved stem (round berries, ten rows, six berries in the middle row, 5 cm high - no match in Briquet or Heawood).

Collector's mark: none.

Inscription: Recto: lower right edge, graphite: "13". Verso: upper centre edge, graphite: "12"; centre, graphite: "J. De Bisschop / St Caterina //"; lower centre, brown ink: "Original Drawing By / Sigmund Holbein //"; lower left, graphite, circled: "3"; verso, lower centre, brown ink, monogram: "LD" [? Triangular shaped, not on Lugt]. Separate paper, now mounted with the drawing, brown ink: "Coln. / of Sr. Any Westcombe / Bart. left to Bernard / Granville + sold by his / descendant //".

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