Live Auction 17081Old Master and British Drawings and Watercolours Including Works from the Collection of Jean Bonna
Circle of Hans Rottenhammer (Munich 1564/1565-1625 Augsburg)
Lot 112

Circle of Hans Rottenhammer (Munich 1564/1565-1625 Augsburg)

Minerva visiting the Muses making music on Mount Helicon

Closed2 July 2019

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GBP 11,250

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Circle of Hans Rottenhammer (Munich 1564/1565-1625 Augsburg)
Minerva visiting the Muses making music on Mount Helicon
with inscription 'Wichho[...]' and 'Anib. [...]' (verso)
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown and green wash, the verso reddened
7 ½ x 11 ½ in. (19 x 29.3 cm)

Specialist note

In style as well as in composition, this drawing can be compared to one of the same subject by Hans Rottenhammer at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (P. Prange in German Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1580-1900, exhib. cat., Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, 2010, no. 3, ill.). Dated by Peter Prange to circa 1610, when Rottenhammer had settled in the imperial city of Augsburg, his drawing or a similar work by him may have inspired the artist responsible for the present sheet, who was probably active in the same region.