DrawingsFlemish17th-18th century

Allegory of Redemption (Design for a Frontispiece)

17th-18th century

Artists

Jan Erasmus QuellinusArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Gray ink and brown wash over graphite or black chalk, incised, with a framing line in brown ink, on cream antique laid paper

Culture

Flemish

Century

17th-18th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

12.8 x 8.8 cm (5 1/16 x 3 7/16 in.) primary mount: 14 x 10 cm (5 1/2 x 3 15/16 in.) secondary mount: 23 x 17 cm (9 1/16 x 6 11/16 in.)

Provenance

[Walter Schatzki, New York], sold; to Fogg Art Museum, 1966.

Related Artworks

Drawings

Untitled (bleed-through of previous page, left page); Untitled (Albert Einstein, right page)

Otto Piene, 1999

Black marker and opaque watercolor on paper

20th centuryGerman

Drawings

Untitled (bleed-through of previous page, left page); Untitled (pool amidst landscape, right page)

Otto Piene, 1984

Colored marker on paper

20th centuryGerman

Drawings

Bauhaus Masters' Housing, Dessau, 1925-1926: Staircase window: elevation, sections and details, 1:20

Walter Gropius, 1925-1926

Graphite on paper

20th centuryGerman

Drawings

The Artist's Studio

Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin, 18th century

18th centuryFrench

Drawings

Untitled (bleed-through of previous page, left page); Untitled (Groton landscape, right page)

Otto Piene, 2002

Colored marker on paper

Drawings

Portrait of Sir George James Turner, Lord Justice of Appeal in Chancery

George Richmond, 1862

Black, white, red, and blue chalk on buff paper

19th centuryBritish

Drawings

Saint Sebastian

Giovanni Antonio Licinio, call Il Pordenone, 16th century

Brown ink and gray wash heightened with white gouache on blue antique laid paper with spatters of oil paint, laid down to printed page on antique laid paper

16th centuryItalian

Drawings

"Alberich" for Wagner's "Das Reingold"

Aubrey Vincent Beardsley, 1896

Black ink on white wove paper

Black ink on off-white wove paper

20th centuryAmerican

Drawings

The Entombment, after Dürer

Moritz von Schwind, 1821

Graphite and grey wash on off-white paper

19th centuryAustrian

Drawings

Medici Thusnelda

Augustin Pajou, 1761-1762

Brown ink, brown and gray wash with traces of black chalk, on cream antique laid paper, with cream antique laid paper border adhered to face

18th centuryFrench

Drawings

Untitled (bleed-through of previous page, left page); Untitled ("NRW Rheinland," right page)

Otto Piene, 1997

Black marker and ink on paper

20th centuryGerman