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The Hunter Caught by the Hares
The Hunter Caught by the Hares

The Hunter Caught by the Hares

Georg Pencz (German, about 1500–1550)
Hans Sachs (German, 1494–1576)
about 1535–50
Medium/TechniqueBroadside, letterpress and woodcut with transparent washes applied via stencil
DimensionsBorderline: 25.5 x 39.3 cm (10 1/16 x 15 1/2 in.)
Sheet: 54.5 x 39.5 cm (21 7/17 x 15 9/16 in)
Credit LineFund in memory of Horatio Greenough Curtis
Accession number42.43
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPrints
ProvenanceRudolph II (b. 1552 - d. 1612), Holy Roman Emperor, Prague; 1620, following the Battle of White Mountain, captured and incorporated into the collection of Maximilian I (b. 1573 - d. 1651), Duke and Elector of Bavaria, Munich; 1632, during the Thirty Years' War, taken by the Dukes of Saxony and passed by descent through the Dukes of Saxe-Gotha-Altenberg and of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha [see note 1]; May 2-3, 1932, sold by the Dukes of Saxe-Coburg, Boerner, Leipzig, lot 490, for M 160. 1942, sold by P. and D. Colnaghi, London, to the MFA for $144. (Accession Date: February 12, 1942)

NOTES:

[1] The early provenance is provided in "Die Sammlung Graf Yorck von Wartenburg" (auction catalogue, Boerner, Leipzig, May 2-3, 1932), introduction (n.p.) and notes under lot no. 1. Catalogued as at Gotha (Xyl. II 248/9) by Heinrich Röttinger, Die Holzschnitte des Georg Pencz (Leipzig, 1914), p. 46, cat. no. 40.