Studies of a gourd and various animals

Details

After Joris Hoefnagel (Antwerp 1542-1600 Vienna)
Studies of a gourd and various animals
bodycolour and oil on grey-green prepared paper, pen and brown ink framing lines
7 x 11 3/8 in. (17.7 x 28.8 cm)

Provenance

Dr and Mrs Francis Springell; Sotheby's, London, 30 June, 1986, lot 34 (as North European, Early 17th Century).
with Richard Day, London.

Literature

N. Strasser, Dessins des écoles du nord du XVe au XVIIIe siècle. Collection Jean Bonna, Geneva, 2013, no. 26, ill.

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Lot Essay

These carefully arranged animal studies are taken from Joris Hoefnagel’s four albums, datable 1591-1599, containing highly finished drawings showing animal life divided in the four elements. Animals in these sheet can be identified in Terra, fols. XXIX, LIII, and LV, and Ignis, fol. XI (see T. Vignau-Wilberg, Joris and Jacob Hoefnagel. Art and Science around 1600, Munich, 2017, no. A6, figs. 8 and 22).

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