Scenes of Life of St Anne

Title

Scenes of Life of St Anne

Draughtsman

• Jacob Cornelisz.

Production Place

• Amsterdam

Period Produced

• 16th century

School

• Late Middle Ages
• Renaissance

Object Type

• drawing

Material

• ink?
• Indian ink?
• paper

Technique

• pen drawing

Geographic Reference

• Netherlandish

Production Reason

• figure study
• composition study
• design for a woodcut?

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

Acquisition

Acquired in 1889

Genre

• historical narration
• depiction of a saint

Persons Shown

• Anne (saint)
• Joachim
• Mary

Primary

• 73A235 meeting of Anna and Joachim at the Golden Gate; they usually embrace or kiss each other (immaculate conception of Mary)
• 73A3 birth and youth of Mary