LOT DETAILS

Materials:

pen and brown and black ink on vellum

Measurements:

3.74 in. (9.50 cm.) (height) by 4.84 in. (12.30 cm.) (width)

Literature:

U. Thieme and F. Becker, Allgemeines Lexicon der Bildenden Künste, Leipzig 1907-50, vol. 35, p. 538; F. Lugt, Les Marques de collection de dessins et d'estampes. Supplément, The Hague 1956, p. 356, under no. 2459a; C. van de Velde, Jan Wierix. The Creation and Early History of Man, 1607-1608, London 1990, p. 7, no. 2a

Provenance:

Emperor Rudolf II (?); Adalbert Freiherr von Lanna (L.2773), his sale, Stuttgart, Gutekunst, 6-11 May 1910, part of lot 596; Tony Straus-Negbaur (L.2459a), her sale, Berlin, Cassirer, 25-26 November 1930, lot 108 ('Gottvater über den Wassern'); with Katrin Bellinger, London (Nine Drawings from the Creation and the Early History of Man, 1993, no. 3), from whom bought by the present owner