Diogenes looking for people

Title

Diogenes looking for people

Draughtsman

• Carl Friedrich Wendelstadt

Period Produced

• 19th century

Object Type

• drawing

Material

• watercolours
• paper

Technique

• watercolour painting
• brush drawing

Geographic Reference

• German

Production Reason

• Pictorial drawing
• autonomous drawing?

Label at the Time of Manufacture

Signiert unten links (mit Bleistift): C. Wendelstad

Captions Added Later

Verso Stempel des Städelschen Kunstinstituts, Frankfurt am Main (Lugt 2356)

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

Genre

• historical narration

Persons Shown

• Diogenes of Sinope

Primary

• 98B(DIOGENES)52 Diogenes, carrying a lighted lantarn by daylight, trying to find an honest man, usually in a crowded market-place
• 41A31 façade (of house or building)
• 41D21 clothes covering the entire body
• 41A775 wooden container: barrel, cask