Currently not on view
Noah and his Family Thank God with a Sacrifice after the Survival of the Ark,
1860
Theodor Grosse, German, 1829–1891
1997-28
Grosse was a latter-day follower of the Nazarenes, a German Romantic movement formed in Vienna early in the nineteenth century that sought inspiration in the spiritual values and techniques of medieval and early Renaissance art. Following his studies at the Dresden Academy, Grosse traveled to Florence and Rome to study the frescoes of Ghirlandaio and other early Renaissance masters. While in Rome in 1860, Grosse created a series of finished drawings illustrating the biblical story of Noah and the Ark in a painstaking fifteenth-century technique of drawing with a silver wire on paper prepared with a gesso ground.
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Title
Noah and his Family Thank God with a Sacrifice after the Survival of the Ark
Dates
1860
Maker
Medium
Silverpoint
Dimensions
33.2 × 44.1 cm. (13 1/16 × 17 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Felton Gibbons Fund
Object Number
1997-28
Signatures
Signed, inscribed and dated, lower right: Theodor Grosse / Rom 11 Marz / 1860
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Purchased From Kate Ganz, London. (See reference Bib. 4829); [title not held at PUL, so can't confirm definitely that 1997-26 is in catalogue--AW 6/16/16]
- Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker, eds., Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, (Leipzig: Engelmann, 1907-1950)., Vol. 22: p. 297
- Kate Ganz, A catalogue of drawings, small paintings & oil sketches: Jason McCoy Inc., New York, 22 May - 12 June 1996, (London: Jason McCoy?, 1996).
- "Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1997," in "A Window into Collecting American Folk Art: The Edward Duff Balken Collection at Princeton," special issue, Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 57, no. 1/2 (1998): p. 164-208., p. 187
