Frauenbad Bremen KH KL2 Porras-Report

Porras-Report zu Frauenbad Bremen KH KL2

• Winkler 152
• Woman's Bath
• Bremen, Kunsthalle
• Inv. Nr. Kl. 2
• Dimensions (LH-RH / TW-BW) 23.1-23.2-22.9-22.7
• Cut down? Yes on all sides
• Pen and black ink
• Condition notes : The sheet is in good to fair condition. There are some light orangey brown medium sized foxing marks across entire sheet, most noticeably in lower left corner and in boty of central kneeling woman. There is also some staining along bottom edge and some loss of ink on alll edges and along top. There is a grey smudge or stain on central kneeling woman's body.
• Full description sheet (holes, repairs, framing lines): There are some nicks along the left and riight edges. There is a small hole on the neck of the woman seen from behind. There is a small reddish stain at top left corner and at top right corner. There is a smudge of gray ink at lower right corner, as well as flecks of black and gray ink throughout. There is a repaired tear about 2 cm long about 7 cm from bottom right corner. There is a repaired Y shaped tear at left edge, centre of sheet, as well as a 1 cm long irregular tear about 3 cm from bottom left corner. There is a framing line at bottom that may be contemporary or may cover a contemporary line.
• Signed?: initials A D
• Dated: 1496
• Monogram: Yes
• Other inscriptions: No.
• Watermark: Scales in a circle surmounted by a star? [Bremen 2001 says Briquet 2524]
• Tracing of watermark: --
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• Collectors' Marks: Lower left corner Kunstverein Bremen stamp in brown ink.
• Provenance: In the 1820s acquired by Dr. Hieronymus Klugkist, since 1853 been in the collection Kunstverein Bremen (Lugt 292)
• Literature: Hausmann 1861, 17 and 118; Posonyi 1867, 211; Retberg 1871, 18; Ephrussi 1881, 6; Ephrussi 1882, 38-42; Thausing 1884, 119; Lippmann 1888, II, 101; Hurm 1892, 187; Schultz 1892, 51; Schlosser 1893, 271; Gluck 1901, 25; Dodgson 1903 II 270, no. 4a; Rudeck 1905, 20; Wolfflin 1905, 117 and 134; Martin 1906, 211; Wolfflin 1914, no. 6; Meder 1919, 397; Kurth 1927, 101; Tietze 1928 I no 119; Flechsig 1931 II, 61 and 64; Meder 1932, 46 and 249; Waetzoldt 1936, 226; Winkler no. 152; Panofsky 1943 I, 49-50, II, no. 1180; Clark 1953, 324; Jegel 1954, pl. 12; Panofsky 1955, 50; Winkler 1957, 94; Pastoureau 1963, pl. 17; Huett 1970 I, 179; Nurembert 1971, in entries no. 462 and 472; Washington 1971, 6, 12, 84; White 1971, 66; Strauss 1974 1493/4; Anzelewsky 1980, 62; Austin 1983, 5; Piel 1983, 51; Grewenig 1987, 51; Duerr 1988, 40; Rossiaud 1989, 125; Meyer 1992, 47-51, 153-64; Hinz 1993, 102; London 1995, 9; Sarti 1999, pl. 58; Bremen 2001, no. 1

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