Tobias Stimmer

Download image: 
Tobias Stimmer
1539-1584
The Crucifixion
1562
Pen and black ink, white opaque watercolor, on red-brown prepared ground, on paper, varnished.
16 15/16 x 12 5/16 inches (430 x 313 mm)
Purchase.
1971.7
Inscription: 

Signed, inscribed and dated by the artist, "Thobias Stimmer de Scaffusa fecit. Sperat autem, illis non ad opus, / qui illud abusunt, et qui causa sunt, ut abusaretur. Scilicet pingitores 1562".

Provenance: 
Possibly Balthasar Künast, Strasbourg; C. Anton Milani, Frankfort-am-Main; Alfonso Milani, Eltville, Germany; E.V. Thaw and Co., New York.
Associated names: 

Künast, Batlhasar, former owner.
Milani, C. Anton, former owner.
Milani, Alfonso, former owner.

Bibliography: 

Schreiber, Heinrich, Denkmale deutscher Kunst des Mittelalters, no. 3, Karlshruhe, 1828, 91.
Gabriel von Térey, "Eine Kunstkammer des 17. Jahrhunderts [Balthasar Künast zu Strassburg]," Repertorium für Kunstwissenschaft, XIX, 1869, 35.
Katalaog für die Ausstellung der Werke älterer Meister, Glaspalast, Munch, 1876, II, 302, no. 2549.
J. H. Bäschlin, Schaffhauser Glasmaler des XVI. und XVII. Jahrhunderts, Schaffhausen, 1880, II, 5.
Friedrich Thöne, Tobias Simmer Handzeichnungen, Freiburg im Breisgau, 1936, 91, no. 335.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Sixteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1969-1971. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1973, p. 121-122.
From Leonardo to Pollock: Master drawings from the Morgan Library. New York: Morgan Library, 2006, cat. no. 55, p. 118-119.

Artist page: 
School: 
Century: 
Classification: 
Department: