Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Gundeberga of Bavaria, Queen of the Langobards

Johann Matthias Kager
1575?-1634

Gundeberga of Bavaria, Queen of the Langobards

7 3/4 x 6 3/16 inches (197 x 158 mm)
Pen and black ink and wash, with opaque white, over black chalk, on paper.
1991.47

Purchased on the Edwin H. Herzog Fund

Notes
This sheet is preparatory for a print, in reverse, by Raphael Sadeler I, plate 14 of Matthaeus Rader's "Bavaria Sancta", Munich, 1615.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed in pen and brown ink along bottom edge, possibly in a seventeenth century hand, "Matthias Kager"; inscribed by a later hand on verso at lower left, ""Matthaeus Kager / Geb. 1566 / -1634 / zu Augsburg / [...] ein Mädchen im Gefängniss, / aussen ein Kampf zwischen 2 Reitern. Feder u[nd] Tusche u[nd] / weiss gehöht unten bez[eichnet] Matthias Kager [...] 5'' 6'' [...]".
Associated names
Jolles, Boguslaw, former owner.
Bennigsen, Andreas von, former owner.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department