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    Soldiers Discovering the Body of Holofernes
    Master of the Liechtenstein Adoration. Soldiers Discovering the Body of Holofernes, c. 1550. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).
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    Soldiers Discovering the Body of Holofernes

    by Master of the Liechtenstein Adoration

    Inscriptions

    Verso center, in graphite: 64 (or 49?) (encircled)

    Provenance

    The Prince of Liechtenstein, Vaduz, before 1950 [Laren 1962]. Professor Einar Perman, Stockholm, by the mid-1950s [conversation with his son Dr. Einar Perman]; by descent to his son, Dr. Einar Perman, Stockholm. Sold by R. M. Light and Company, Santa Barbara, Calif., to the Art Institute, 1999.

    Exhibition history

    Laren, Holland, Singer Museum, "Oude Tekeningen uit de Nederlanden: Verzameling Prof. E. Perman, Stockholm," June 9-Sept. 16, 1962, cat. 64, p. 15 (ill. 22). The Art Institute of Chicago, "Dreams and Echoes: Drawings and Sculpture in the David and Celia Hilliard Collection", October 20, 2013 - February 16, 2014, pp. 19, 28-29, 207-208, cat. 3 (ill.), cat. by Suzanne Folds McCullagh and Melissa Gustin

    Publications

    Friedrich Winkler, "The Anonymous Liechtenstein Master," Master Drawings I (Summer 1963), pp. 37– 38. Otto Benesch, "Once Again the Anonymous Liechtenstein Master," Master Drawings, III (Winter 1965), pp. 47–48 (ill. 39). Wolfgang Wegner, "Bemerkungen zum Werke des Meisters von Liechtenstein," Wallraf-Richartz Jahrbuch 32 (Koln, 1970), p. 264. Holm Bevars, Niederlandische Zeichnungen des 16 Jahrhunderts in der Staatlichen Graphischen Sammlung Munchen (Munich, 1989), pp. 55–56. Heinrich Geissler, Zeichnungen des 16 bis 18 Jahrhunderts, Vermachtnis Richard Jung (Stuttgart, 1989), p. 116. Karel G. Boon, The Netherlandish and German Drawings of the XVth and XVIth Centuries of the Frits Lugt Collection (Paris, 1992), p. 500. Laren, Holland, Singer Museum, "Oude Tekeningen uit de Nederlanden: Verzameling Prof. E. Perman, Stockholm," June 9-Sept. 16, 1962, cat. 64, p. 15 (ill. 22). Christian Dittrich, Van Eyck, Bruegel, Rembrandt : niederländische Zeichnungen des 15. bis 17. Jahrhunderts aus dem Kupferstich-Kabinett Dresden. Eurasburg : Edition Minerva, 1997, p. 48. [Christian Dittrich] Die Albertina und das Dresdner Kupferstich-Kabinett : Meisterzeichnungen aus zwei alten Sammlungen : eine Ausstellung mit der Graphischen Sammlung Albertina Wien. Dresden : Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, 1978, p. 76.

    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Master of the Liechtenstein Adoration / Netherlandish, active c. 1530-1560
    Date
    c. 1550
    Medium
    Pen and black ink and brush and black wash, over lilac wash, heightened with white gouache, on cream laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper
    Dimensions
    18.2 × 28 cm (7 3/16 × 11 1/16 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    pen and ink drawings
    Place
    Germany
    Department
    Prints and Drawings
    Credit line
    Celia and David Hilliard and Harold Joachim Memorial Endowments
    Accession no.
    1999.683

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