Soldiers Discovering the Body of Holofernes

Provenance

The Prince of Liechtenstein, Vaduz, before 1950 [Laren 1962]. Professor Einar Perman, Stockholm, by the mid-1950s [conversation with his son Dr. Einar Perman]; by descent to his son, Dr. Einar Perman, Stockholm. Sold by R. M. Light and Company, Santa Barbara, Calif., to the Art Institute, 1999.

Soldiers Discovering the Body of Holofernes

Master of the Liechtenstein Adoration

c. 1550

Accession Number

153194

Medium

Pen and black ink and brush and black wash, over lilac wash, heightened with white gouache, on cream laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper

Dimensions

18.2 × 28 cm (7 3/16 × 11 1/16 in.)

Classification

pen and ink drawings

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Celia and David Hilliard and Harold Joachim Memorial Endowments