The Arms of Habsberg Flanked by an Elegant Couple

Inscriptions

Signed and dated below coat of arms, in black ink: "DL 1587"; inscribed with color notes in gray ink; inscribed, lower center: "W.G.D.A. 1591 / Habsberg ist abgestorben / beÿ Horb zu Instetten"

Exhibition history

Munich, Münchener Glaspalast, "Ausstellung der Werke älterer Meister," 1876, part II, cat. 2579. Schaffhausen, Museum zu Allerheiligen, "Daniel Lindtmayer 1552-1606, Handzeichnugen," 1952, cat. 110. 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

F. Warnecke, Musterblätter für Künstler und Gewerbetreibende, part II (1883), fig. 75. F. Thöne, Daniel Lindtmayer 1552-1606/07 (Munich and Zürich, 1975), p. 193, no. 170, fig. 217.

Quick Overview

Artist: Daniel Lindtmayer / Swiss, 1552-c. 1606
Date: 1587
Medium: Pen and black ink and brush and gray and black washes on ivory laid paper
Dimensions: 32.9 × 20.7 cm (13 × 8 3/16 in.)
Type: Drawing
Classification: prints and drawing
Place: Switzerland
Department: Prints and Drawings
Credit line: Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
Accession no.: 2013.972

Provenance

Possibly Johann Wilhelm Veith, 1758-1833. D. Schindler, by 1876. Freidrich Bürki; sold, Basel, 1881. Sold, Berlin, Amsler and Ruthardt, Apr. 24, 1895, lot 33. Sold, Berlin, Amsler and Ruthardt, June 25-27, 1908, lot 309. Prince Liechtenstein, Vienna, c. 1930. Sold, Sotheby's, New York, Jan. 28, 2009, lot 6, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, MA; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2013.

Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.