Death and a Scholar
Death and a Scholar

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Death and a Scholar,

ca. 1680

Andreas Bodan, the Younger, German, 1656–1696
2021-103

Information

Title
Death and a Scholar
Dates

ca. 1680

Maker
Andreas Bodan, the Younger
Medium
Pen and brown ink and brown wash, with framing lines in brown ink at the top and left edge
Dimensions
44.8 × 29.7 cm (17 5/8 × 11 11/16 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Laura P. Hall Memorial Fund
Object Number
2021-103
Signatures
Signed at lower left: Andr Bodan
Culture
German
Type
drawings
Materials
ink, wash
Subject
skeleton, figures (representations), deaths, scholars, men, cartographic materials

Boguslaw Jolles (d. 1912), Dresden and Vienna (Lugt 381 or 381a), his stamp at the lower right; His sale, Munich, Hugo Helbing, 28-31 October 1895, lot 726 (as ‘André Joseph Bodem’: ‘Unter einem Säulenbogen eines Prunkbaues eine männliche Figur vor einem Skelette stehend. Bezeichnet: >>Andr. Bodem<<. H.45, B.29.6 cm. Kräftige Feder- und Bisterzeichnung.’); Hill-Stone Ltd., New York, in 1999; private collection.Stephen Ongpin Fine Art, London; Princeton University Art Museum

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