Jacopo Ligozzi

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Jacopo Ligozzi
1547-1626
A Botanical Specimen of Vincetoxicum Officinale
ca. 1577-1587
Watercolor, opaque watercolor, over black chalk, on parchment.
21 1/4 x 13 1/4 inches (540 x 337 mm)
Gift of Dr. Werner Muensterberger.
2010.184
Provenance: 
Possibly Bernard Houthakker (1884-1963), Amsterdam; possibly Lodewijk Houthakker (1926-2008), Amsterdam; Dr. Werner Muensterberger (1913-2011), New York.
Associated names: 

Houthakker, Bernard, 1884-1963, former owner.
Houthakker, Lodewijk, former owner.
Muensterberger, Werner, former owner.

Bibliography: 

Rhoda Eitel-Porter and and John Marciari, Italian Renaissance Drawings at the Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 2019, no. 101.
Selected references: New York 2010, 113, under note 9.

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