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Description: | A reproduction produced by the Vasari Society of a drawing by the Master of the 'Hausbuch'. The drawing is a design for stained glass, and consists of four part-circle shapes grouped around a blank central area, to form a quatrefoil shape.
The top-left drawing is of two figures on the back of a horse. The figure at the front is wearing a feathered hat and has one hand raised, and the figure at the back is holding a bird.
The top-right drawing is a landscape with a rocky mass at the front of it. Several angular buildings are in the background, with a cylindrical tower on the left. A bare, bent tree is in the centre, and a figure on horseback is to the right.
The bottom-left drawing is of a man and a woman seated on the ground. The woman is stroking the man's hair. An open, rectangular receptacle is on the ground next to them, perhaps some kind of water container as it appears to have a tap at the front.
The bottom-right drawing is of a man and woman standing close to each other. The man is wearing a cap with long animal ears protruding from it, and the woman is holding his hand in both of hers. Some trees are visible behind them, and in their shadows is a figure holding a long stick with a curved end.
Text from the accompanying booklet produced by the Vasari Society:
"9.
MASTER OF THE 'HAUSBUCH'
(Worked about 1465-1510)
DESIGN FOR STAINED GLASS: FOUR SUBJECTS GROUPED ABOUT A BLANK ESCUTCHEON
Collection of Max Bonn, Esq. From the Grahl (?) and Felix Becker Collections (see Catalogue of Boerner Sale, XC. 28. XI. 1912, No. 134). Pen and ink on paper. 24.3 x 21.8 cm. (9 1/2 x 8 1/2 in.).
The drawing, to be dated probably about 1485, is the original design for one of a series of four glass paintings in the form of quatrefoils within circles, three of which are in the Kunstgewerbemuseum at Berlin, the fourth in the Metropolitan Museum, New York (an inferior repetition at Berlin). The Berlin pieces have a moden piece of heraldic glass in the centre; the old centre of the piece at New York contains the arms of Austria.
The glass painting No. 191 at Berlin reproduces the drawing with slight variations; it differs chiefly by omitting the girl who rides behind the young man, and the rider on the road in the top division of the quatrefoil. The relations of these and certain other glass paintings to the art of the Upper Rhine engraver and painter known as the Master of the 'Hausbuch' have been fully discussed by Dr. H. Schmitz.
C. D.
[F. Becker. om Zeitschr. f. bild. Kunst, 1912, N. F. XXIII. 219. H. T. Bossert and W. F. Storck, Das mittelalterliche Hausbuch, 1912, p. 46. H. Schmitz, Die Glasgemälde des Königl. Kunstgewerbemuseums in Berlin, 1913, I. 102 ff., and II. Taf. 30, 31.]"
Technique: reproduction
Reproduction by the Vasari Society of a drawing by the Master of the 'Hausbuch', Design for stained glass: four subjects grouped about a blank escutcheon (1920.1360). | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.104116 | Go to resource |
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