European Drawings 2: Catalogue of the Collections

HANS VON KULMBACH

CIRCA 1480-1522

127 The Judgment of Solomon

Pen and brown ink and gray wash; diam. 27.6 cm
(io^7 /8Ín.)
89.00. 5

MARKS AND INSCRIPTIONS: (Verso) inscribed Martin
Schoen in graphite.
PROVENANCE: J. F. Lahmann, Dresden; Edmund Schill-
ing, Frankfurt; private collection, Switzerland (sale, Ga-
lerie Kornfeld, Bern, June 17, 1987, lot 139); art market,
Boston.
EXHIBITIONS: None.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: None.

THIS PREVIOUSLY UNPUBLISHED DESIGN FOR A

stained-glass window by Kulmbach appeared in a 1987

sale in Bern.^1 Its technique, consisting of a loose brush

drawing in wash reinforced with ink lines, recurs in

Kulmbach's Women's Bath with a Fool (Stadelsches Kunst-

institut inv. 15684), the expressive figurai style of which

is also reminiscent of the present example. The figures

with beards and exotic headgear standing to the left and

right of the king recall similar onlookers in The Martyr-

dom of Saint Sebastian (Bremen, Kunsthalle inv. 371611).

The Museum's drawing appears to be contemporary

with Woman's Bath with a Fool, which has been dated by

F. Winkler to circa I5IO-I5^2 and by B. Butts to circa

1511.^3

1. B. Butts will include this sheet in her forthcoming mono-
   graph on Kulmbach's drawings (conversation with L. Hendrix,
   1989).


2. Die Zeichnungen Hans Suss von Kulmbachs una Hans Leonard
   Schdufeleins (Berlin, 1942), nos. 112, 113.


3. "Dürerschuler" Hans Süss von Kulmbach, unpub. Ph.D. thesis,
   Harvard University, 1985, p. 115.

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