File:Drawing (BM 1997,0712.56 1).jpg
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Drawn by: Joris Hoefnagel (animals, insects and plants on the border)
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Description |
English: Allegory on Life and Death; an oval panel containing a child seated in front of a rose bush holding a skull and an hour-glass, surrounded by dead roses, insects and animals, including a frog, a mouse and a stag-beetle. 1598
Bodycolour and watercolour with gold leaf on vellum |
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1598 date QS:P571,+1598-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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Medium | vellum | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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institution QS:P195,Q6373 |
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Accession number |
1997,0712.56 |
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Notes |
Exhibition label text (revised 2003): 'Hoefnagel is best remembered today as a miniaturist. He specialised in exquisitely painted illuminations of insects, birds and animals, often in allegorical contexts, with Latin mottoes or epigrams executed in elaborate calligraphy. In this capacity he worked from 1577-1591 for the dukes of Bavaria in Munich and later for the Emperor Rudolf II in Prague, where this drawing was made. The figure of the child with a skull and hour-glass within an ornamental frame has here been juxtaposed with animals and insects to create a 'Vanitas' allegory.' Parts of the dense black bodycolour and the inscription on the upper scrolls, and the gold on the upper edge, have been re-touched. For a similar drawing by Hoefnagel of an allegory of Duke Albrecht V, see 'Wittelsbach und Bayern' exh.cat., Munich, 1980, vol.II/2, pp.46ff, no.65*. A further sheet (Venus disarming Cupid within an oval, surrounded by animals and insects representing the four elements) rather more damaged and covered in a thin layer of oil/varnish, was with Paul Prouté in Jan. 2008 and was acquired by the Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen. Thea Vignau-Wilberg noted (January, 2010) that the composition within the oval with the figure of Cupid, which is drawn in a very different style to the elaborate surround, is most likely painted by Joris's son, Jacob, who was a much more competent figure draughtsman than his father. The two artists collaborated on other occasions (see for example, the miniature of Diana and Actaeon within a decorative border with plants, insects and small animals, dated 1597, in the Louvre, inv.no P.373). In the 2017 catalogue, Vignau-Wilberg attributes this miniature to both Joris and Jacob and suggests it was intended to recommend Jacob for a position at court. She considered the signature to be re-touched, as it does not match any other signed work (Joris always signed a Latinized form of his name, 'Georgius Hoefnagelius') and might have been added when the original signature was no longer legible (p. 186-7). Literature: 'Die von Edmund Schilling gesammelten Zeichnungen', privately printed, 1982, no.35 (states that the drawing was published by E. Chmelarz, Jahrbuch des allerhöchsten Kaiserhauses, vol.XVII, p.287, n.1; and sold at the auction of C. Huysmans und A.J. Wijngaert, Amsterdam, 21-22 Juni 1887, Nr.101, when it was sold together with another miniature showing Adam and Eve); Rowlands 1984, no.57; Thea Vignau-Wilberg, 'Natur Dichtung und Wissenschaft in der Kunst um 1600', Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich, 1994, pp.33ff, note 19; Prague exh.cat. 1997; G. Bartrum, 'Apollo', November, CXLVI, 1997, p.53. |
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Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1997-0712-56 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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