A Bishop Saint Raising a Dead Man
Purchased as the gift of Frits Markus.
Possible attribution includes Pieter de Witte, called Peter Candid (ca. 1548-1628); Hans Rottenhammer (ca. 1564-1625); Johann Matthias Kager (1575-1634).
Formerly attributed to Pieter de Witte, called Peter Candid (under which name acquired). Bruges ca. 1548-1628 Munich
The former attribution to Peter Candid, under which the drawing was acquired, is no longer accepted. Heinrich Geissler, among others, suggested the drawing may be South German, possibly associated with the circle of Hans Rottenhammer, toward the end of the Rottenhammer’s career.1 In 1985, Hinrich Sieveking tentatively suggested Johann Matthias Kager (unpublished opinion recorded in curatorial file). More recently, Timothy Clifford proposed that the drawing is instead Italian in origin, more specifically, from the school of Cremona (unpublished opinion recorded in curatorial file, 2008). Rhoda-Eitel Porter believed that, on balance, a late sixteenth-century German artist such as Rottenhammer seems the most likely candidate.
Footnotes:
- Stampfle 1991, 114, no. 252.
Rottenhammer, Hans, 1564-1625, Possible attribution.
Kager, Johann Matthias, 1575?-1634, Possible attribution.
Markus, Frits, donor.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Nineteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978-1980. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981, p. 222.
Stampfle, Felice, with the assistance of Ruth S. Kraemer and Jane Shoaf Turner. Netherlandish Drawings of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries and Flemish Drawings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries in the Pierpont Morgan Library. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1991, p. 114, no. 252, repr.