Bruno Piglhein

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Bruno Piglhein
1848-1894
Nymph and Satyr and Several Figure Studies
Pen and black ink, with watercolor on light brown wove paper; main image squared for transfer in pencil.
sheet: 14 1/16 x 11 1/16 inches (365 x 280 mm); design area: 6 7/8 x 5 1/8 inches (176 x 131 mm)
Gift of Sidney Katz.
1983.15
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Watermark: none.

Inscription: 

Inscribed at left center of design area, in pen and black ink, "Trinkwasser"(?); and at lower right, "Das Bild Im Helldunkel zu halten", and stamped, "Piglhein". Inscribed at lower left of sheet, on attached piece of same type of paper, in graphite, "Piglhein E.U.B. 1848-1894 Hamburg-München".

Provenance: 
Mr. Sidney Katz.
Associated names: 

Katz, Sidney, former owner.

Bibliography: 

Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twentieth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981-1983. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984, p. 288.

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