PROVENANCE
Prints and a Few Drawings from Great Collections of the Past

  1. Master MR, Christ on the Cross
  2. Dürer, St. Bartholomew
  3. Dürer, Christ Before Caiaphas
  4. Raimondi, Philosophy
  5. Raimondi, Façade with Caryatids
  6. Beham, Job Conversing
  7. Beham, Satyr Sounding a Horn
  8. Beham, Peasant Couple Walking
  9. Caraglio, Martyrdom of St. Paul
  10. Aldegrever, Standard Bearer
  11. Pencz, Feeding the Hungry
  12. Pencz, Artemisia Preparing
  13. Falconetto, Tomb Surmounted
  14. Claesz, St. Peter Seated
  15. Treu, Noble Dancers
  16. Master FP, Hercules Killing
  17. Brun, February
  18. Solis, Arithmetria
  19. de Bruyn, The Circumcision
  20. Sadeler, Virgin and Child
  21. Goltzius, A Young Man
  22. Matham, The Planets
  23. Brizio, Extensive Landscape
  24. van de Velde, Fête Villageoise
  25. van de Velde, Backgammon
  26. van Uyttenbroek, Tobias
  27. van Uyttenbroek, Bacchus
  28. Rembrandt, The Small Lion Hunt
  29. Hollar, Woman with Headdress
  30. Saftleven, Dutch Peasant
  31. Ostade, Bust of a Peasant
  32. Stoop, A Grazing Horse
  33. Fyt, Set of Animals
  34. Bega, The Three Drinkers
  35. Anonymous, Landscape
  36. Nanteuil, Charles Benoise
  37. Nanteuil, Cardinal Mazarin
  38. Nanteuil, Pierre Seguier
  39. van Vliet, St. Jerome Sitting
  40. Cossin, Ornament Design
  41. Sirani, St. Eustace
  42. Somer, Hagar and Ishmael
  43. Daullé, La Muse Clio
  44. Tiepolo, The Holy Family
  45. MacArdell, Hannah, Mrs. Horneck
  46. Laurie, Elizabeth, Dutchess
  47. Denon, Village Scene
  48. Charlet, Les Français
  49. Pieraccini, Holy Family
  50. Daumier, Y n’y a rien comm’
  51. Daubigny, Les Ruines du Chateau
  52. Daubigny, Lever de Lune
  53. Meryon, Le Petit Pont
  54. Rops, La Poupée du Satyre
  55. Whistler, Old Hungerford Bridge
  56. Legros, Un Coin de Rivière
  57. Buhot, Frontispice
  58. Forain, La Rencontre
  59. Pennell, Hampton Court Palace
  60. Delâtre, Silhouette de Femme

12. Georg Pencz
(ca. 1500-1550)

Artemisia Preparing to Drink the Ashes of Her Husband

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Pencz, Artemisia Preparing

Artemisia Preparing to Drink the Ashes of Her Husband

Other Images:

Engraving, ca. 1539, 190 x 134 mm., Bartsch 83, Landau 91 a (of b). A very fine, sharp impression on laid paper with a complex but difficult to decipher watermark, trimmed to the subject, ca. 2 mm. into the subject at the top, removing the top of the escutcheon, but with apparently 1 mm. more at the right than the impressions illustrated in Bartsch and Landau; tiny surface loss at the right bottom. Artemisia was the widow of Mausolus, a satrap of Caria in Asia Minor. She erected a great monument to his memory at Halicarnassus (hence, the word mausoleum), which was one of the seven wonders of the world. According to legend, she mixed the ashes of Mausolus in liquid which she then drank, becoming a living tomb. Accordingly, she symbolizes a widow's devotion to her husband's memory.

Provenance:
Wilhelm Drugulin (Lugt 2612). Drugulin (1825-1879), who was based in Leipzig, was one of the most important and influential print dealers of his time, and the catalogs he issued were, in many cases, ground breaking in their scholarship. In his later years he grew less interested in commerce and more in building his own personal collection. His inventory, containing many superb and rare prints, was sold in various auctions in Paris, Leipzig and London during his lifetime, but his personal collection, which contained such unbelievable rarities as a niello by Finiguerra and landscapes by Hercules Seghers, was dispersed only after his death.

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