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Description: | A reproduction produced by the Vasari Society of a drawing by Albrecht Altdorfer. The drawing is on a green background, and shows a woman on horseback riding out from beneath an arched gateway. She is wearing an elaborate feathered headdress and a long dress. Surrounding her, on foot, are a number of men carrying swords and weapons. Two of these are also wearing feathered headwear. Two small dogs are running about at the bottom of the drawing. In the background is a cluster of buildings, and behind these rises a mountain or cliff face.
Text from the accompanying booklet produced by the Vasari Society:
"10.
ALBRECHT ALTDORFER
(b. about 1480; d. 1538)
LADY RIDING OUT FROM THE GATE OF A TOWN
Collection of Captain E. G. Spencer Churchill, Northwick Park. Pen and Indian ink on green prepared paper, heightened with white. Dated 1510 (1516?). 20.7 x 16.1 cm. (8 x 6 1/4 in.).
Two other versions of this drawing have already been published: at Berlin (Zeichnungen alter Meister im Kupferstichkabinett der K. Museen zu Berlin, 1910, II. 189), and in the Liechtenstein Collection, Vienna (Albertina publication, No. 721). In both cases the ground is light brown. It is clear that the second of these (much cut down) is a copy, but it is not so easy to decide on the relative merits of the Berlin and the Northwick versions. The latter, if seen by itself, would be accepted without hesitation as a genuine Altdorfer. But the Berlin version surpasses it in certain respects, especially in the drawing of the architecture, and of the small figures in the background on the right. The differences are more marked in the group of buildings in the background than elsewhere. The characters in which the date is drawn are quite different, and superior, in the Berlin version. Being slightly cut at the top, there is some ambiguity about the last figure of the date. Friedländer (A. Altdorfer, 1891, p. 147, No. 8, and again in 1910) gives it as 1516; Meder refers to it as dated 1510. The latter date suits the style of the drawings better. The author of the Northwick version seems to have hesitated; the date looks like 1510, retouched. No version of the drawing is signed. A copy at Oxford, upon pale buff paper, heightened with white, is signed I.S. upon a tablet and dated 1608.
C. D."
Technique: Reproduction
Reproduction by the Vasari Society of a drawing by Albrecht Altdorfer, Lady riding out from the gate of a town (1920.1361). | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.103902 | Go to resource |
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