MONOGRAMMIST M. S
ACTIVE 1557
136 A Falconer in a Landscape
Pen and black ink; H: 15 cm(5I5/i6Ín.); W: 21 cm(8I/ 4 in.)
89.GA.i3
MARKS AND INSCRIPTIONS: (Recto) at top, inscribed
Im J557 Jar den 30 November. / M. S. in black ink by the
artist; (verso) under the lining, inscribed Falkenjagd.
PROVENANCE: Arnold O. Meyer (sale, C. G. Boerner,
Leipzig, March 19-20, 1914, lot 358); Schôller collection,
Germany (sale, C. G. Boerner, Leipzig, November 11-
12, 1921, lot 25); C. F. G. R. Schwerdt, Hants (sale, Soth-
eby's, London, June 27, 1939, lot 1298); private collec-
tion, New England (sale, Sotheby's, London, July 4,
1988 , lot 4); art market, Boston.
EXHIBITIONS: One Hundred Master Drawings from New
England Private Collections, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hart-
ford; Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth Col-
lege, Hanover, N. H.; and Museum of Fine Arts, Bos-
ton, September 1973 -January 1974, no. 4 (catalogue by
F. W. Robinson).
BIBLIOGRAPHY: C. F. G. R. Schwerdt, Hunting Hawk-
ing Shooting (London, 1928), vol. 3, p. 219.
SCHWERDT (1928) FIRST ASSOCIATED THIS DRAWING
with the style of Augustin Hirschvogel, who was active
in Nuremberg during the 15305 and moved permanently
to Vienna during the early 15405. It is particularly close
to two drawings by him, one a rectangular view of a fal-
coner luring back his bird and the other a later round,
more finished version of the same composition with
some changes and in reverse (both Szépmüvészeti Mú-
zeuminv. 105, 106). The pose of the falconer in the Mu-
seum's drawing also borrows elements from an analo-
gous figure in an engraving by Virgil Sous, signed and
dated 1541.^1 Although K. Schwarz dated the Hirschvogel
drawings to the mid-i54OS, J. S. Peters argued convinc-
ingly for a date of circa 1533.^2 All of this suggests that
M. S., for whom no other drawings have been identified,
was not a Viennese artist in the orbit of Hirschvogel but
was active instead in Nuremberg.^3 The highly finished
character of the Getty drawing and its prominent sig-
nature and date indicate that it was made as a presentation
sheet, just as Hirschvogel's falcon hunt roundel in Bu-
dapest probably was.- I. O'Dell-Franke, Kupferstiche unâ Radierungen aus der Werk-
stattdes Virgil Solis (Wiesbaden, 1977), p. 139, no. g 43. - K. Schwarz, Augustin Hirschvogel (Berlin, 1917; 2nd ed.
New York, 1971), vol. i, p. 72; J. S. Peters, "Early Drawings
by Augustin Hirschvogel," Master Drawings 17, no. i (Winter
1979), F- 375- - G. K. Nagler, in Die Monogrammisten (Munich and Leipzig,
1858-79), vol. 4, no. 2163, lists an M. S. who was active in Nu-
remberg as a Formschneider circa 1545 - 80.
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