Martin van Heemskerk
1498-1574
The Phlegmatic Temperament: Luna
1565
8 1/4 x 9 7/16 inches (210 x 240 mm)
Pen and brown ink, over black chalk, on paper.
1986.7
Purchased on the Fellows Fund.
Notes
Watermark: none.
This is the fourth of Heemskerck's designs for the series the "Four Temperaments" ("Quatuor praedominantes complexiones"), engraved in reverse by Herman Muller in 1566 (Hollstein, VIII, p. 246, no. 438-41). The drawing for the second engraving, the "Choleric Temperament" is located in the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven. The locations of the other two drawings are unknown.
This is the fourth of Heemskerck's designs for the series the "Four Temperaments" ("Quatuor praedominantes complexiones"), engraved in reverse by Herman Muller in 1566 (Hollstein, VIII, p. 246, no. 438-41). The drawing for the second engraving, the "Choleric Temperament" is located in the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven. The locations of the other two drawings are unknown.
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed and dated at the lower left, "Heemskerck inventor 1565" (the data some distance from the name); numbered, to the left of the date, possibly also by the artist, "4". On verso, in an old (seventeenth century?) Dutch script, in black chalk, "no 25/3-/ van heemskerck".
Associated names
Stirling Maxwell, William, Sir, 1818-1878, former owner.
Stirling, William, Lt. Col., former owner.
Stirling, William, Lt. Col., former owner.
Bibliography
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. 44, no. 73, repr.
100 Master drawings from the Morgan Library & Museum. München : Hirmer, 2008, no. 40, repr. [Achim Riether]
100 Master drawings from the Morgan Library & Museum. München : Hirmer, 2008, no. 40, repr. [Achim Riether]
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