Copy after Josias Murer
1564-1630
The Migration of Abraham. Verso: sketches of ornamental panels
15 3/4 x 11 11/16 inches (401 x 297 mm)
Pen and black ink and wash, over graphite, on paper; verso: black chalk.
1984.44
Purchased on the Edwin H. Herzog Fund.
Notes
Watermark: none.
This drawing is a copy after the drawing by Josia Murer in the Schweizerisches Landesmuseum, Zurich (inv. LM 23803).
This drawing is a copy after the drawing by Josia Murer in the Schweizerisches Landesmuseum, Zurich (inv. LM 23803).
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed at upper center in pen and black ink, "Abraham zucht uss nach Gotts Geboth / Mit Sara seinem Weib und Lot / Samt aller Hab, in ander Landt / Sin grechter Glaub ward Gott bekandt / Dorum ihn segnet Gottes Handt / Genis XII"; inscribed at lower right in pen and brown ink, "CM" in ligature (altered from IM?) and in empty shield in graphite, "19".
Associated names
Feder, E. von, former owner.
Meissner, Kurt, former owner.
Meissner, Kurt, former owner.
Bibliography
Handzeichnungen Alter Meister aus Schweizer Privatbesitz, Kunsthaus, Zurich, 1967, no. 207.
Old Master Drawings from the Collection of Kurt Meissner, Zurich, exh. cat. by Françoise Froster-Hahn, Stanford Unviersity Museum and Stanford Art Gallery, 1969-70, no. 82.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twenty-First Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984-1986. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1989, p. 364.
Old Master Drawings from the Collection of Kurt Meissner, Zurich, exh. cat. by Françoise Froster-Hahn, Stanford Unviersity Museum and Stanford Art Gallery, 1969-70, no. 82.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twenty-First Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984-1986. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1989, p. 364.
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