HIERONYMUS LANG
ACTIVE 1541-1582
130 Stained Glass Design for a
Married Couple
Pen and black ink and gray, ocher, brown, and orange
washes; H: 24 cm (9^7 /i6 in.); W: 21.8 cm (8^9 /i6 in.)
89.00.18
MARKS AND INSCRIPTIONS: (Recto) at bottom, in-
scribed Bicius Haller una Barbleij fluomman sin hussfraauw
1553 on banderole in black ink.
PROVENANCE: Private collection, Zurich; art market,
Boston.
EXHIBITIONS: None.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: None.
LANG WAS ONE OF THE EARLIEST MAJOR GLASS PAINT-
ers active in Schaffhausen. His numerous surviving
drawings for stained-glass windows include a high pro-
portion of roundels commemorating married couples.
The relatively restrained use of ornament and naive
charm of the present drawing accord well with other
drawings by him.^1 The lyrical rendering of the forms tes-
tifies to the lingering influence of Niklaus Manuel
Deutsch and Hans Holbein the Younger. This is one of
two surviving stained-glass designs commemorating
Bitzius Haller and Barbara Fluomann. The other, in the
Historisches Museum, Bern (inv. 20036.150), dates from
1563 and was drawn by Joseph Gosier, a Bernese glass
painter who was himself influenced by Lang.^2 Gosier
made yet another window for Haller (Bern, Historisches
Museum), who was a member of one of the prominent
families of Bern.^31. F. Thône, Museum zu Allerheiligen Schaffhausen: Die Zeich-
nungen des 16. unà ij. Jahrhundert: Schweizerisches Institut for
Kunstwissenschaft, Zurich: Kataloge schweizerMuseen unâ Samm-
lungen i (Schafïhausen, 1972), nos. i, 2, 6; inv. B 897, B 43, B i.
2. A. Scheidegger, Die berner Glasmalerei von 1540 bis 1580
(Bern, 1947), pp. 48, 118, no. 36, pi. 49.- Ibid., no. ii; H. Türler, V. Attinger, and M. Godet,
Historisch-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz (Neuenburg,
1927), vol. 4, pp. 58ff.
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