Siegfried fängt einen Bären, 1812

Title

Siegfried fängt einen Bären

Draughtsman

• Peter von Cornelius

Part Number / Total

5 / 7

Production Place

• Rome

Period Produced

• 19th century

Object Type

• drawing

Material

• ink?
• Indian ink?
• vellum paper

Technique

• pen drawing

Geographic Reference

• German

Production Reason

• Pictorial drawing
• finished drawing
• preliminary drawing for a book illustration

Captions Added Later

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

Watermark

• Nicht vorhanden

Institution

• Städel Museum

Administration

• Department of Prints and Drawings

Collection

• Städelsches Kunstinstitut

Creditline

Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main

Picture Copyright

Public Domain

Acquisition

Acquired in 1872

Genre

• historical narration
• literary representation
• animal depiction

Persons Shown

• Siegfried

Illustrated Passage

• Nibelungenlied

Primary

• 81(NIBELUNGENLIED) 'Nibelungenlied'
• 82A(SIEGFRIED) Siegfried
• 25F23(BEAR) beasts of prey, predatory animals: bear