Inscribed by the artist upper centre: VIZZEGRAD germanicé PLINDEBVRG, lower left: DANVBIVS / OCCIDENS, at upper left, MARÓS, upper right: ORIENS; Pen and brown ink, red, blue, green and pink watercolour, mixed with white gouache for the figures’ cloth
Drawn 1594-5, 172 x 484 mm.
Provenance
Princes of Liechtenstein, Vaduz; H. P. Kraus (dealer), New York; Paul Mellon; Private collection, England, since 1985
Literature
Felice Stampfle, with the assistance of Ruth S. Kraemer and Jane Shoaf Turner, Netherlandish Drawings of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries and Flemish Drawings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries in the Pierpont Morgan Library. New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, 1991, p. 45, under no. 75
Acquired by the Institute Néerlandais, Paris, 2006
