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II. Sketch of a Horse and Rider
DOI issue:III. Verbal notes for the picture of Christ in the Winepress, now at Ansbach (reduced)
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of Durer. A few lines beneath the hoofs suggest the ground on which
the horse is standing.
In the same collection is another drawing, formerly mounted on
the same sheet as this, and possibly also an early work of Durer. It is,
at any rate, very near to him, but I could not quite convince myself
that such an attribution was justifiable. It is a black pen and ink
drawing, with a false monogram of Durer, representing a young woman
standing, in three-quarter face to right, with a large Haube on her
head, a low-cut dress partly showing the breasts, a pointed shoe, and a
long gown trailing on the ground. She holds in her left hand a pink,
and in her right hand a long empty scroll, which passes over her head.
The sheet is cut to an irregular shape, the maximum dimensions being
21.3 by 11.5 cm.
I have less hesitation in ascribing to Durer yet another drawing
at Coburg, of much later date and greater importance. This is a large
black chalk drawing of a man, aged perhaps about forty-five, in three-
quarter face to the left, with moustache, short curly beard, and hair
covered by a close-fitting cap or net; he wears a double chain with a
pendant ornament. The sheet measures 61 by 26.6 cm., and has for
watermark the cardinal's hat, as found on the woodcuts called the
"Six Knots." The portrait is much too large to find a place in the
present publication, but I hope that it may be worthily published
elsewhere.
III.
Verbal notes for the picture of Christ in the
Winepress, now at Ansbach (reduced).
British Museum (Add. MS. 5229, fol. 52). Pen and ink. Size of sheet,
29.8 by 21.5 cm., 11^ by g, in. No watermark.
It has long been known that the British Museum MSS. contain these
verbal notes by Diirer for the picture, still extant, which was painted
by another hand from a sketch prepared by Durer himself. The
sketch is at Berlin (Plate IV.), the painting at Ansbach (Plate V.).
The original notes are mentioned by Zahn, Thausing,2 Holzschuher,3
Conway,4 and Lippmann,5 but they have never been reproduced.
The owner of the arms is not mentioned in the literature dealing
specially with the drawing, except in the article by Holzschuher.
They are, as will be explained in the notes on Plate V., the arms of
1 "Jahrbucher fur Kunstwissenschaft," I., 21. 2 Ibid., I., 183; II.. 181. 3 Bid., I., 361.
4 "Literary Remains of A. Diirer," p. 274. 5 Text to No. 28.
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the horse is standing.
In the same collection is another drawing, formerly mounted on
the same sheet as this, and possibly also an early work of Durer. It is,
at any rate, very near to him, but I could not quite convince myself
that such an attribution was justifiable. It is a black pen and ink
drawing, with a false monogram of Durer, representing a young woman
standing, in three-quarter face to right, with a large Haube on her
head, a low-cut dress partly showing the breasts, a pointed shoe, and a
long gown trailing on the ground. She holds in her left hand a pink,
and in her right hand a long empty scroll, which passes over her head.
The sheet is cut to an irregular shape, the maximum dimensions being
21.3 by 11.5 cm.
I have less hesitation in ascribing to Durer yet another drawing
at Coburg, of much later date and greater importance. This is a large
black chalk drawing of a man, aged perhaps about forty-five, in three-
quarter face to the left, with moustache, short curly beard, and hair
covered by a close-fitting cap or net; he wears a double chain with a
pendant ornament. The sheet measures 61 by 26.6 cm., and has for
watermark the cardinal's hat, as found on the woodcuts called the
"Six Knots." The portrait is much too large to find a place in the
present publication, but I hope that it may be worthily published
elsewhere.
III.
Verbal notes for the picture of Christ in the
Winepress, now at Ansbach (reduced).
British Museum (Add. MS. 5229, fol. 52). Pen and ink. Size of sheet,
29.8 by 21.5 cm., 11^ by g, in. No watermark.
It has long been known that the British Museum MSS. contain these
verbal notes by Diirer for the picture, still extant, which was painted
by another hand from a sketch prepared by Durer himself. The
sketch is at Berlin (Plate IV.), the painting at Ansbach (Plate V.).
The original notes are mentioned by Zahn, Thausing,2 Holzschuher,3
Conway,4 and Lippmann,5 but they have never been reproduced.
The owner of the arms is not mentioned in the literature dealing
specially with the drawing, except in the article by Holzschuher.
They are, as will be explained in the notes on Plate V., the arms of
1 "Jahrbucher fur Kunstwissenschaft," I., 21. 2 Ibid., I., 183; II.. 181. 3 Bid., I., 361.
4 "Literary Remains of A. Diirer," p. 274. 5 Text to No. 28.
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