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Christoph Jamnitzer
1563-1618
Dance of the Months, with a Celebration of Neptune
ca. 1610
Pen and brown ink and wash with white opaque watercolor over black chalk on two joined sheets of paper.
6 1/8 x 19 1/2 inches (155 x 492 mm)
Thaw Collection.
2017.131
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Inscribed on verso, in pen and brown ink, S Tito/ss. Watermark: Eagle encircled, surmounted by a crown (similar to Briquet 207: Rome 1573-76); Fragment of letters or numbers.
Watermark: Eagle inside circle with crown above.
Watermark: Countermark: Letter "M" or "H", fragment.
Provenance:
Private collection, Amsterdam; Richard Day Ltd., London; from which acquired by Linda Rose, New York, 1983; sale, Christie's, New York, 22 January 2003, lot 87, repr. (as attributed to Jamnitzer); Day & Faber, London; Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw, New York.
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Associated names:
Thaw, Eugene Victor, former owner.
Thaw, Clare, former owner.
Bibliography:
Thaw Catalogue Raisonné, 2017, no. 211, repr.
The Thaw collection of master drawings : acquisitions since 2002. New York : Morgan Library & Museum, 2009, no. 6, repr.
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