drawing
- Museum number
- 1879,1213.37
- Description
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Adoration of the Magi; Virgin and Child sitting on a stone slab at right in the ruins of a building, a king kneeling presenting his gift, the other two kings standing on the steps behind at left holding their gifts, an angel and foliage behind. 1519
Pen and black ink, with grey wash, heightened with white bodycolour, on reddish-brown paper
- Production date
- 1519
- Dimensions
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Height: 254 millimetres
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Width: 156 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Further lit: F. Winzinger, Zeitschr. f. Kunstwiss., xxii, 1968, pp. 19-20, repr.; Hausberger, pp. 98f., repr.; Winzinger, Huber, p. 156, no. 222, repr.
Summary of Rowlands, 1993:
'This was acquired as by Albrecht Altdorfer, and re-attributed to Huber in 1900; later it was placed among the early sixteenth-century anonymous German drawings, no doubt by Dodgson. Winzinger included it in the small group of works he attributed to the Master of Mühldorf. Although there is a certain similarity between the features of the Magi pointing upwards in the present drawing and those of Caiaphas in the right-hand outside wing of the altarpiece of 1511 in the church at Altmühldorf (Winzinger, 1968, p. 13, pls. 1, 14), the drawing itself seems too different in its execution either from the ‘Annunciation’ at Sacramento, or from British Museum no.1949,0411.122, both of which are more convincingly associated with this artist. It seems more appropriate to attribute the sheet to the southern Bavarian region, perhaps around Regensburg.'
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2006-7 Nov - Jan. BM, Nativity show (no cat.)
- Acquisition date
- 1879
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1879,1213.37