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Johann Matthias Kager
1575?-1634
Gundeberga of Bavaria, Queen of the Langobards
Pen and black ink and wash, with opaque white, over black chalk, on paper.
7 3/4 x 6 3/16 inches (197 x 158 mm)
Purchased on the Edwin H. Herzog Fund
1991.47
Notes:
This sheet is preparatory for a print, in reverse, by Raphael Sadeler I, plate 14 of Matthaeus Rader's "Bavaria Sancta", Munich, 1615.
Inscription:
Inscribed in pen and brown ink along bottom edge, possibly in a seventeenth century hand, "Matthias Kager"; inscribed by a later hand on verso at lower left, ""Matthaeus Kager / Geb. 1566 / -1634 / zu Augsburg / [...] ein Mädchen im Gefängniss, / aussen ein Kampf zwischen 2 Reitern. Feder u[nd] Tusche u[nd] / weiss gehöht unten bez[eichnet] Matthias Kager [...] 5'' 6'' [...]".
Provenance:
Boguslaw Jolles (Lugt 381a); sale, Leipzig, C.G. Boerner, 1938; private collection, Switzerland; Andreas von Bennigsen.
Associated names:
Jolles, Boguslaw, former owner.
Bennigsen, Andreas von, former owner.
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