Ornament sketches

Title

Ornament sketches

Draughtsman

• southern German, 18th century

Recto

Death scene

Period Produced

• 18th century

School

• Baroque

Object Type

• drawing

Material

• graphite
• chalk
• Vergé paper

Technique

• pencil drawing
• graphite drawing?
• chalk drawing?

Geographic Reference

• southern German

Production Reason

• ornament study
• sketch

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

• ornament

Primary

• 31A2361 lying on the back with uplifted upper part of the body
• 31A(+1) the (nude) human figure; 'Corpo humano' (Ripa) (+ front view)
• 31A2511(+1) arm raised upward (+ front view)
• 31AA(+64) the (nude) human figure; 'Corpo humano' (Ripa) - AA - female human figure (+ downward)
• 11Q21 one person praying
• 41A761(+0) bed (+ variant)

Historic Attribution

• Martin Johann Schmidt called Kremser-Schmidt draughtsman