Assumption of the Virgin, 1714

Title

Assumption of the Virgin

Draughtsman

• Johann Georg Bergmüller

Period Produced

• 18th century

School

• Baroque

Object Type

• drawing

Physical Description

Brown ink as well as watercolour and gouache, touched with charcoal and red chalk (traces), on ribbed laid paper

Material

• ink?
• Indian ink?
• watercolours
• gouache paint
• coal
• red chalk
• Vergé paper
• handmade paper

Technique

• pen drawing
• watercolour painting
• gouache (technique)
• brush drawing
• charcoal drawing
• red chalk drawing

Geographic Reference

• German

Production Reason

• Pictorial drawing
• design for an altarpiece
• presentation design?

Label at the Time of Manufacture

Signiert und datiert unten mittig (mit der Feder in Braun): Joa: Georg: Berckmiller invenit et fecit. Anno 1714.

Watermark

• Nicht geprüft

Institution

• Städel Museum

Departement

• Department of Prints and Drawings

Collection

• Städelsches Kunstinstitut

Creditline

Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main

Picture Copyright

Public Domain

Acquisition

Acquired in 1920

Genre

• historical narration
• literary representation
• depiction of a saint

Main Motif

• Life of the Virgin
• depiction of the Virgin
• Mary
• Jesus Christ
• Twelve Apostles
• angel
• woman
• child
• man
• group of people
• cross

Persons Shown

• Mary
• Jesus Christ
• Twelve Apostles

Associated Persons and Institutions

• Jacobus de Voragine
• Peter Paul Rubens

Illustrated Passage

• Die Legenda aurea des Jacobus de Voragine, übersetzt von Richard Benz, Heidelberg 1984, S. 583-609

Primary

• 73E77 the assumption of Mary ('assumptio corporis'): she is borne into heaven by angels
• 31D14 adult man

Secondary

• 42E33 sarcophagus
• 11D121 cross as symbol of Christ
• 48C161 column, pillar ~ architecture