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Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

The Agony in the Garden. Verso: sketches of buildings and mechanical instruments

Circle of Albrecht Altdorfer
approximately 1480-1538

The Agony in the Garden. Verso: sketches of buildings and mechanical instruments

9 5/16 x 6 5/8 inches (235 x 169 mm)
Pen and black ink, with white opaque watercolor, on cream paper prepared with a blue ground. Verso: Pen and brown ink, pen and black ink separate sketches.
1974.61

Gift of Roland Redmond.

Notes
Watermark: none.
This appears to be a workshop copy of Altdorfer's drawing in Berlin, KdZ 111.
Formerly attributed to German School, early 16th century.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed on verso in pen and brown ink at center "siegill thurstein"(?); in darker brown ink at lower right, "domriss"(?).
Associated names
Anonymous, German School, 16th cent., Formerly attributed to.
Oppenheimer, Henry, former owner.
Redmond, Roland Livingston, 1892-1982, former owner.
Bibliography
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Seventeenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1972-1974. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1976, p. 166.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department