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Emperor Frederick Barbarossa on a Stag Hunt

Jan van der Straet
1523-1605

Emperor Frederick Barbarossa on a Stag Hunt

1587
7 11/16 x 10 1/2 inches (196 x 265 mm)
Pen and brown and black ink, blue wash (partly turned green), with opaque white, over black chalk, on paper.
1991.14

Purchased on the Edwin H. Herzog Fund.

Notes
Watermark: none visible through lining.
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed, dated, and inscribed by the artist, in brown ink, at the lower left, "1587 / IO[h]A[nnes] STRADANVS INVENT[or]"; beneath this, "D[ominus] PH[ilippu]S GAL[LUS]"; at lower right, "Vbaldinus / Vbaldinus MVGELLI / D[omi]N[us]S"; and on the chest gear of the horse, "FRIDERICVS...".
Associated names
Marignane, Marie, former owner.
Marignane, Hubert, former owner.
Woodner, Ian, former owner.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department