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JOHANNES WIERIX (ANTWERP 1549-CIRCA 1620 BRUSSELS)
The Creation and Early History of Man in twenty scenes
signed ‘Johan Wiricx inve’ (with some variations)
pen and brown ink on vellum
3 5/8 x 4 7/8 in. (9.4 x 12.2 cm) each
(20)
Provenance
with Horatio Rodd (active 1798-1858), London (his catalogue, 1849 or 1850, no. 1440).
probably Sir Thomas Jeaffreson, Dullingham Hall and Denston Hall, Suffolk; Charles Boardman and son, Suffolk, 2 December 1987, lot 186.
with Richard Feigen & Co., New York (see Van de Velde’s publication cited below).
Literature
C. Van de Velde, Jan Wierix. The Creation and the Early History of Man, 1607-1608, London and New York, 1990.
K. Bellinger and H. Weinhold, Jan Wierix, 1549 - Antwerp - 1620. Nine Drawings from the Creation and the Early History of Man, cat., Katrin Bellinger Kunsthandel, Munich, 1993, p. 5.
Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, 2000, p. 172, under no. 70 (entry by S. Thomas).
European Master Drawings Unveiled. Van der Goes, Michelangelo, Van Goyen, Fragonard, and Other Masters from Belgian Collections, exhib. cat., Rotterdam, Kunsthal, 2002, p. 48, under no. 18 (entry by C. Kruyfhooft).
Hollstein’s Dutch and Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, LIX, The Wierix Family. Part I, Rotterdam, 2003, p. 5, under nos. 1-21 (compiled by Z. van Ruyven-Zeman, with M. Leesberg).
Z. van Ruyven-Zeman, ‘“Stuckxken met de penne”: Drawings by the Engraver Johannes Wierix’, Master Drawings, XLII, no. 3, Autumn 2004, p. 241.
Drawings in Dialogue. Old Master through Modern. The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, exhib. cat., Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, 2006, p. 43, under no. 18 (entry by L. Markey).
N. Strasser, Dessins des écoles du Nord du XVe au XVIIIe siècle. Collection Jean Bonna, Geneva, 2013, p. 64, under no. 20.