id: 124733
accession number: 1946.217
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Dead Blue Roller, 1583. Hans Hoffmann (German, 1545/50–1591/92), after Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471–1528). Watercolor and gouache with touches of gold; sheet: 29.2 x 16.9 cm (11 1/2 x 6 5/8 in.); secondary support: 29.2 x 16.9 cm (11 1/2 x 6 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund 1946.217
title: Dead Blue Roller
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creation date: 1583
creation date earliest: 1583
creation date latest: 1583
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creditline: Dudley P. Allen Fund
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culture: Germany
technique: watercolor and gouache with touches of gold
department: Drawings
collection: DR - German
type: Drawing
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CREATORS
* Hans Hoffmann (German, 1545/50–1591/92) - artist
* Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471–1528) - artist
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measurements: Sheet: 29.2 x 16.9 cm (11 1/2 x 6 5/8 in.); Secondary Support: 29.2 x 16.9 cm (11 1/2 x 6 5/8 in.)
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description: cream(1) laid paper, laid down on cream(1) wove paper
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inscription: signed, lower center, in gray ink: 1583 / [artist's monogram: Hh]; verso, upper left, in ink (?, visible through transmitted light): 182 [sideways]; upper right, in ink (?): 7 [illegible]; center left, in ink (?): 182; lower left, in ink (?): [11?]; lower center, in ink (?): 50; verso of secondary support, lower right, in graphite: 3.
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Watercolors by the Masters: Dürer to Cézanne
opening date: 1952-05-01T04:00:00
Watercolors by the Masters: Dürer to Cézanne. Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN (organizer) (May 1-June 15, 1952).
title: German Drawings
opening date: 1955-11-11T05:00:00
German Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 11-December 18, 1955).
title: Drawings from the Museum Collection: 15th-17th Centuries
opening date: 1960-05-18T04:00:00
Drawings from the Museum Collection: 15th-17th Centuries. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 18-October 11, 1960).
title: Water Color
opening date: 1962-06-06T04:00:00
Water Color. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 6-August 27, 1962).
title: Drawings
opening date: 1963-01-11T05:00:00
Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 11-September 10, 1963).
title: European Watercolors Through the 18th Century
opening date: 1964-01-14T05:00:00
European Watercolors Through the 18th Century. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 14-March 22, 1964).
title: Idea to Image: Preparatory Studies from the Renaissance to Impressionism
opening date: 1980-02-19T05:00:00
Idea to Image: Preparatory Studies from the Renaissance to Impressionism. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 19-March 23, 1980).
title: Drawings from the Holy Roman Empire, 1540-1680: A Selection from North American Collections
opening date: 1982-10-03T04:00:00
Drawings from the Holy Roman Empire, 1540-1680: A Selection from North American Collections. Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ (organizer) (October 2-November 21, 1982); National Gallery of Art, Landover, MD (January 27-April 11, 1983); Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA (April 23-June 19, 1983).
title: The Magic of Still Life
opening date: 1986-11-04T05:00:00
The Magic of Still Life. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 4, 1986-February 1, 1987).
title: Treasures on Paper
opening date: 1988-05-10T04:00:00
Treasures on Paper. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 10-July 24, 1988).
title: The German Tradition
opening date: 1993-04-27T04:00:00
The German Tradition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 27-June 27, 1993).
title: Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art
opening date: 2000-08-27T00:00:00
Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 27-October 17, 2000); The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY (May 23-August 19, 2001); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (October 14, 2001-January 6, 2002).
title: Treasures on Paper from the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art
opening date: 2014-03-09T00:00:00
Treasures on Paper from the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 9-June 8, 2014).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
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PROVENANCE
Paul von Praun, 1548-1616, Nuremberg-Bologna
date: around 1580-1616
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Johann Friedrich Frauenholz, 1758-1822, Nuremberg
date: 1801-1822?
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Johann Andreas Boerner, 1785-1862, Nuremberg, his sale, Rudolph Weigel Kunst Auction, Leipzig, 28 November 1864, lot 113.
date: ?-1864
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Theodor Oswald Weigel, 1812-1881, Leipzig, his sale, Gutekunst Stuttgart, 8 May 1883, no. 444.
date: around 1864-1883
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A. Freiherr von Lanna, Prague, 1836-1909, (Lugt 2773, stamped, verso, center), his sale Gutekunst Stuttgard, 6-11 May, 1910, lot 296: sold to Charles Obach.
date: around 1883-1910
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With Charles Obach, art dealer, London
date: 1910
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Henry Oppenheimer, 1859-1932, London, his sale, Christie's London, 10 and 13-14 July, 1936, no. 380: sold to Heinrich Eisemann.
date: around 1910-1936
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Heinrich Eisemann, 1890-1972, Frankfurt-London
date: 1936-around 1946
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with Schaeffer Galleries, Inc., New York
date: 1946
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1946-
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Weigel, J. A. G. Catalog einer Sammlung von Original-Handzeichnungen der deutschen, holländischen, flandrischen, italienischen, französischen, spanischen und englischen Schule. Leipzig: T.O. Weigel, 1869.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: cat. no. 50, p. 10
url: https://archive.org/details/catalogeinersamm00weig/page/10/mode/2up
Winkler, Friedrich. Die Zeichnungen Albrecht Dürers. Berlin: Deutscher Verein für kunstwissenschaft, 1936.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: vol. 3, pp. 59-60, under no. 615
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Francis, Henry S. "Drawing of a Dead Blue Jay by Hans Hoffmann." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art. 34, no. 1 (1947): 13-15.
page number: Mentioned: pp. 13-14; reproduced: p. 15
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141332
Francis, Henry. "Drawing of a Dead Blue Jay by Hans Hoffmann." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 34, no. 1 (January 1947): 13-14.
page number: Reproduced: p. 12; Mentioned: p. 14.
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141332
Kurz, Otto. Fakes: A Handbook for Collectors and Students. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1948.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 97
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Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Watercolors by the Masters: Dürer to Cézanne. Minneapolis: Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1952.
page number: Mentioned: no. 6
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Pilz, Kurt. "Hans Hoffmann: Ein Nürnberger Dürer-Nachahmer aus der 2. Hälfte des 16. Jahrhunderts." Mitteilungen des Vereins für Geschichte der Stadt Nürnberg 51 (1962), pp. 236-272.
page number: Mentioned: no. 25, pp. 261-62
url: https://periodika.digitale-sammlungen.de/mvgn/Band_bsb00001014.html
Koschatzky, Walter and Alice Strobl. Dürer drawings in the Albertina. Greenwich, Conn: New York Graphic Society, 1972.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 108, under no. 34
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Johnson, Mark M. Idea to Image: Preparatory Studies from the Renaissance to Impressionism. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1980.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 15-16, fig. 8
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Kaufmann, Thomas DaCosta. Drawings from the Holy Roman Empire, 1540-1680. A Selection from North American Collections. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: no. 26, pp. 88-89
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Koreny, Fritz. Albrecht Dürer and the animal and plant studies of the Renaissance. Boston: Little, Brown, 1988.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 56, fig. 11.1
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Achilles-Syndram, Katrin. Die Kunstsammlung des Paulus Praun: die Inventare von 1616 und 1719. Nürnberg: Im Selbstverlag des Stadtrats zu Nürnberg, 1994.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 244-45, under no. 355
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Schoch, Rainer, Katrin Achilles-Syndram, and Bernd M. Mayer. Kunst des Sammelns: das Praunsche Kabinett : Meisterwerke von Dürer bis Carracci. Nürnberg: Verlag des Germanischen Nationalmuseums, 1994.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 204, note 6, under no. 69.
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DeGrazia, Diane and Carter E. Foster. Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art in association with Rizzoli International Publications, New York, 2000.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: cat. no. 62, pp. 154-55, p. 292
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Dunbar, Burton L., et al. A Corpus of Drawings in Midwestern Collections: Sixteenth-Century. Northern European Drawings. London, England: Harvey Miller, 2012.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: no. 99, pp. 163-65
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IMAGES
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