Matthäus Günther
1705-1788
St. Albinus Ransoming Captives
11 5/16 x 18 5/16 inches
Pen and brown ink, gray wash, with white opaque watercolor, over graphite on paper; squared for transfer in graphite, in the interstices between design area and edge of sheet brushed with opaque purple.
1985.76
Gift of Otto Manley.
Notes
Watermark: none.
Study for the fresco of 1736 in the aisle of the collegiate church of Neustift near Brixen (Bressanone), South Tirol (fresco reproduced in Hermann Gundersheimer, "Matthäus Günther", Augsburg, 1930, pl. 20).
Study for the fresco of 1736 in the aisle of the collegiate church of Neustift near Brixen (Bressanone), South Tirol (fresco reproduced in Hermann Gundersheimer, "Matthäus Günther", Augsburg, 1930, pl. 20).
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed on verso at upper right in graphite, "U"; at right, "Ulrich"; at lower left, ...(erased). Numbered at lower center in green pencil, "59".
Associated names
Schilling, Edmund, 1888-1974, former owner.
Manley, Otto, -1989, former owner.
Manley, Otto, -1989, former owner.
Bibliography
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twenty-First Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984-1986. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1989, p. 346.
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