Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00005939Defeat of Wittekind near Bürberg
Inscriptions
Signed with a monogram and dated recto, lower left, in pen and brown ink: "IS / November 1835"; inscribed, upper center, in pen and brown ink: "775"; lower right, in pen and brown ink: "Besiegung Wittekinds bei Bürberg"; lower right, in pen and brown ink: "IV"; inscribed verso, lower left, in pen and brown ink: "Die Franken besitzen" [?] lange schwerter und kurze Speere / Grimms deutsche Altertumskunde Klemm"; lower left, in graphite: "Lindenscheidt Die Kämpfer trugen zwei Schwerter / 2 Sch. bronz / …"
Provenance
Sold, Christie’s, London, June 29, 2000, lot 501, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, MA; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2013.
Exhibition history
Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection," June 3–July 30, 2006, p. 83, cat. 54 (ill.). Art Institute of Chicago, "The Thrill of the Chase: Drawings for the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection," Mar. 15-June 15, 2014, no cat.
Publications
Suzanne Folds McCullagh (ed.), Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 2006), p. 83, cat. 54 (ill.).
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld / German, 1794–1872
- Date
- 1835
- Medium
- Graphite and red chalk, with brush and brown wash, on cream laid paper (pieced at top)
- Dimensions
- 55.7 × 66 cm (21 15/16 × 26 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- prints and drawing
- Place
- Germany
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
- Accession no.
- 2013.1025
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