Museum of Art
Artist: Adam Elsheimer (follower of) (Flemish, 1578-1610)
Medium: pen and brown ink, brown wash on brown prepared paper
Dimensions: 13 3/4 in. x 9 15/16 in. (35 cm. x 25.3 cm.)
Credit Line: Bequest of the Honorable James Bowdoin III
Accession Number: 1811.75
- James Bowdoin III( Collector, Boston) - 1811.
- Bowdoin College Museum of Art( Museum, Brunswick, Maine) 1811- . Bequest
- Old Master Drawings at Bowdoin College
- Bowdoin College Museum of Art. ( 5/17/1985 - 7/7/1985)
- Clark Art Institute. ( 9/14/1985 - 10/27/1985)
- University of Kansas. ( 1/19/1986 - 3/2/1986)
- Art Gallery of Ontario. ( 5/17/1986 - 6/29/1986)
- Baroque Drawings
- Bowdoin College Museum of Art. ( 2/3/1981 - 3/5/1981)
- The Bible and Its Interpreters
- Bowdoin College Museum of Art. ( 11/8/2004 - 12/23/2004)
Type: catalogue Author: Henry Johnson Document Title: Catalogue of the Bowdoin College of Art Collections Publ. Place: Brunswick, Maine Reference: no. 89 Remarks: (as Unknown) Section Title: Pt. I, The Bowdoin Drawings Date: 1885 Type: catalogue Author: Bowdoin College Museum of Art Document Title: Bowdoin Museum of Fine Arts, Walker Art Building Edition: 4th Publ. Place: Brunswick, Maine Reference: no. 89 Remarks: (as Unknown) Publisher: Bowdoin College Section Title: Descriptive Catalogue of the . . . Date: 1930 Type: exhibition catalogue Author: David P. Becker Document Title: Old Master Drawings at Bowdoin College Publ. Place: Brunswick, Maine Location: p. 206 Reference: no. 105 (illus.) Publisher: Bowdoin College Date: 1985
This drawing was ascribed to the school of Barocci by Sir Robert Witt and to the circle of Elsheimer by Oberhuber. In fact, it is a copy of a painting (in a Swiss private collection) formerly given to Elsheimer himself and then by Andrews to a follower, Thoman von Hagelstein (1588-1653). See Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Adam Elsheimer [exh. cat.] (Frankfurt am Main, 1966-1967), cat. no. 19, repr. pl. 17a; also K. Andrews, Adam Elsheimer (New York and London, 1977), p. 166, no. A 15. Andrews (letter to the author, 31 March 1982) placed the Bowdoin sheet as a copy, designating the artist as a follower of Elsheimer.
Commentary credited to David P. Becker (or not otherwise captioned) appeared in his catalogue Old Master Drawings at Bowdoin College (Brunswick: Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 1985).