
Soldiers Discovering the Body of Holofernes
Master of the Liechtenstein Adoration · c. 1550
Provenance
Ownership history
- The Prince of Liechtenstein, Vaduz, before 1950 [Laren 1962]. Professor Einar Perman, Stockholm, by the mid-1950s [conversation with his son Dr. Einar Perman]; by descent to his son, Dr. Einar Perman, Stockholm. Sold by R. M. Light and Company, Santa Barbara, Calif., to the Art Institute, 1999.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Laren, Holland, Singer Museum, "Oude Tekeningen uit de Nederlanden: Verzameling Prof. E. Perman, Stockholm," June 9-Sept. 16, 1962, cat. 64, p. 15 (ill. 22).
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "Dreams and Echoes: Drawings and Sculpture in the David and Celia Hilliard Collection", October 20, 2013 - February 16, 2014, pp. 19, 28-29, 207-208, cat. 3 (ill.), cat. by Suzanne Folds McCullagh and Melissa Gustin
Literature
Published references
- Friedrich Winkler, "The Anonymous Liechtenstein Master," Master Drawings I (Summer 1963), pp. 37–
- Otto Benesch, "Once Again the Anonymous Liechtenstein Master," Master Drawings, III (Winter 1965), pp. 47–48 (ill. 39).
- Wolfgang Wegner, "Bemerkungen zum Werke des Meisters von Liechtenstein," Wallraf-Richartz Jahrbuch 32 (Koln, 1970), p. 264.
- Holm Bevars, Niederlandische Zeichnungen des 16 Jahrhunderts in der Staatlichen Graphischen Sammlung Munchen (Munich, 1989), pp. 55–56.
- Heinrich Geissler, Zeichnungen des 16 bis 18 Jahrhunderts, Vermachtnis Richard Jung (Stuttgart, 1989), p. 116.
- Karel G. Boon, The Netherlandish and German Drawings of the XVth and XVIth Centuries of the Frits Lugt Collection (Paris, 1992), p. 500.
- Laren, Holland, Singer Museum, "Oude Tekeningen uit de Nederlanden: Verzameling Prof. E. Perman, Stockholm," June 9-Sept. 16, 1962, cat. 64, p. 15 (ill. 22).
- Christian Dittrich, Van Eyck, Bruegel, Rembrandt : niederländische Zeichnungen des 15. bis 17. Jahrhunderts aus dem Kupferstich-Kabinett Dresden. Eurasburg : Edition Minerva, 1997, p. 48.
- [Christian Dittrich] Die Albertina und das Dresdner Kupferstich-Kabinett : Meisterzeichnungen aus zwei alten Sammlungen : eine Ausstellung mit der Graphischen Sammlung Albertina Wien. Dresden : Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, 1978, p. 76.
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