Zwei jüdische Schriftgelehrte, ca. 1608 – 1609

Title

Zwei jüdische Schriftgelehrte

Draughtsman

• Roelant Savery

Part Number / Total

2 / 4

Period Produced

• 17th century
• 16th century

School

• Renaissance
• Baroque

Object Type

• drawing

Material

• ink?
• Indian ink?
• Vergé paper
• handmade paper

Technique

• pen drawing
• metallic pencil drawing

Geographic Reference

• Netherlandish

Production Reason

• figure study

Label at the Time of Manufacture

Bezeichnet (mit der Feder in Graubraun): swardtte mus / gris bondt / rode strepen / witte doek / purper / re rock // rosse grisse muß / nar hedt leuen [=schwarze Mütze / grauer Bund / rote Streifen / weißes Tuch / Purpur / roter (?) Rock // graue Mütze / nach dem Leben]

Captions Added Later

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

Watermark

• Wappen [Fragment]

Work Catalogues

• Spicer-Durham 1979.658.C.224.F.218
• Münz 1961.222.110
• Tolnay 1952.85.114

Institution

• Städel Museum

Departement

• Department of Prints and Drawings

Collection

• Städelsches Kunstinstitut

Creditline

Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main

Picture Copyright

Public Domain

Genre

• genre

Primary

• 12A7 the Jews, Jewish life
• 49C31 group of scholars or philosophers

Secondary

• 49N21 lectern ~ reading
• 49MM32 book - MM - book open
• 12A81 symbols ~ Judaism and Jewry

Historic Attribution

• Pieter Bruegel the Elder draughtsman