Master of the Victoria and Albert Macabre | Two Male Nudes Dragging a Cadaver, A Third Male Nude and a Skeleton Leading A Pair of Oxen, in the Background Further Nudes and Children Being Tortured on Poles. | Drawings Online | The Morgan Library & Museum

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Master of the Victoria and Albert Macabre

Two Male Nudes Dragging a Cadaver, A Third Male Nude and a Skeleton Leading A Pair of Oxen, in the Background Further Nudes and Children Being Tortured on Poles.

Pen and brown ink, over black chalk, on paper.

10 1/4 x 14 5/8 inches (260 x 373 mm)

Gift of János Scholz.

1992.135

Notes:

Watermark: none visible through lining.
The artist was so-named by Philip Pouncey who attributed two drawings in the Victoria and Albert Museum to the same hand, as well as one in the Lyons Collection, Glasgow.

Provenance:

Dr. Max A. Goldstein, St. Louis (1870-1941; no mark; see Lugt 2924); from whom purchased by János Scholz, New York (no mark; see Lugt S. 2933b).

Associated names:

Goldstein, Max A. (Max Aaron), 1870-1941, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.

Bibliography:

Neumeyer, Alfred, and János Scholz. Drawings from Bologna 1520-1800. Oakland : Mills College Art Gallery, 1957, no. 88, repr.

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