Hinrich Degener

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Hinrich Degener
active approximately 1615
Temptation of St. Anthony (Patientia)
ca. 1615
Black and white opaque watercolor.
12 9/16 x 7 5/8 inches (319 x 194 mm)
Thaw Collection.
1981.25
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Watermark: none.
There are related drawings by the artist representing "Temperantia" (Berlin), "Prudentia" (Schwerin), and two of "Iustitia" (the Art Museum, Princeton; Seiden and De Cuevas, Inc. [on loan to the Fogg Art Museum]).

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Inscribed by the artist at lower left edge, in brush and black tempera, "PATIENTIA". On verso, in an old hand, in pen and brown ink, "hinrich Degener".

Provenance: 
Mr. and Mrs. Eugene V. Thaw, New York.
Associated names: 

Thaw, Eugene Victor, former owner.
Thaw, Clare, former owner.

Bibliography: 

Thaw Catalogue Raisonné, 2017, no. 91, repr.
Drawings from the Holy Roman Empire, 1540-1680, exh. cat. by Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, Art Museum, Princeton, and elsewhere, 1982, no. 17, repr.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twentieth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981-1983. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984, p. 253.

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