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Supplicant Kneeling before a Ruler
Unknown Italian artist?
2011-120
Information
Title
Supplicant Kneeling before a Ruler
Maker
Unknown Italian artist?
Medium
Brush with green and white gouache on dark brown prepared laid paper. Mounted down, hinged to a larger sheet of faded blue paper with book plate on verso.
Dimensions
21.4 x 31.5 cm (8 7/16 x 12 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Frances and Allen Adler, Class of 1967
Object Number
2011-120
Place Made
Europe, Italy
Inscription
Inscribed recto, on mount, lower left, in graphite: J. D. Preisler;
Inscribed verso, on primary mount, lower center, in red crayon: G. 235
Culture
Materials
Possibly Johann Daniel Preissler; Giuseppe Vallardi; Bruno Meissner; Hill-Stone, Inc., New York; purchased by Allen Adler, New York.;
- Frits Lugt, Les marques de collections de dessins & d'estampes: marques estampillées et écrites de collections particulières et publiques: marques de marchands, de monteurs et d'imprimeurs: cachets de vente d'artistes décédés: marques de graveurs apposées après le tirage des planches : timbres d'édition, etc., (Amsterdam: Vereenigde drukkerijen; La Haye: Nijhoff, 1921)., Lugt no. 3561
- "Acquisitions of the Princeton University Art Museum 2011," Record of the Princeton University Art Museum 71/72 (2012-13): p. 75-132., pp. 76–77 (illus.)
- Laura Giles, Lia Markey, Claire Van Cleave, et. al., Italian Master Drawings from the Princeton University Art Museum, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 2014)., p. 44, cat. no. 17; p. 45 (illus.); p. 46 (verso illus.); p. 257-258, app. no. 86; p. 258 (illus.)
