id: 130904 accession number: 1953.6 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1953.6 updated: 2024-03-26 01:58:29.599000 Allegory of Christian Belief, c. 1622. Johann Liss (German, c. 1597–1631). Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash; framing lines in pen and black ink; sheet: 15.3 x 9.4 cm (6 x 3 11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund 1953.6 title: Allegory of Christian Belief title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1622 creation date earliest: 1617 creation date latest: 1627 current location: creditline: Dudley P. Allen Fund copyright: --- culture: Germany, 17th century technique: pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash; framing lines in pen and black ink department: Drawings collection: DR - German type: Drawing find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Johann Liss (German, c. 1597–1631) - artist --- measurements: Sheet: 15.3 x 9.4 cm (6 x 3 11/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: description: beige(1) laid paper watermarks: inscriptions: inscription: signed, lower right, in brown ink: Johan Liss / Mahler [illegible] / Holsati[a][masked] ; by artist, upper right, in brown ink: Alle Kunst undt widtz ist / eitel staub. / Hoch weisheidt ist ann. / Christum gelaub. ; by artist, lower right, in brown ink: Zu Rom den 19 martis Ao ["o" in superscript] 16[illegible, final two numbers abraded] ; upper left, in brown ink: + [collector's mark?]; upper right, along right edge, in brown ink: 265 [sideways] ; VERSO, upper left, in ink: 572 ; upper right, in graphite: 69 [sideways] ; center, in graphite: No. 99 al ; lower right, in graphite: Joh. Liss. [erased] ; lower left, in graphite: mj [?] ; lower left, in graphite: T5910 ; lower left, in graphite: Jah. Lys 1570-1626 ; lower right, in graphite(?): Bo. 20 translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS 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: Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition opening date: 1958-03-03T05:00:00 Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (March 3, 1958-October 11, 1959). 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: Drawings opening date: 1963-01-11T05:00:00 Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 11-September 10, 1963). title: Old Master Drawings opening date: 1964-03-10T05:00:00 Old Master Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 10-31, 1964). title: Art in Italy, 1600-1700 opening date: 1965-04-06T05:00:00 Art in Italy, 1600-1700. The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (organizer) (April 6-May 9, 1965). title: Old Master Prints and Drawings opening date: 1966-07-29T04:00:00 Old Master Prints and Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 29, 1966-February 28, 1967). title: Venetian Drawings from American Collections opening date: 1974-09-21T04:00:00 Venetian Drawings from American Collections. National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (September 21-November 24, 1974); Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX (December 7, 1974-February 9, 1975); The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH (February 22-April 20, 1975). 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: 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). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE possibly Karl Eduard von Liphart, Dorpat date: ?-? footnotes: citations: Reinhold von Liphart (Lugt 1758), Dorpat date: ?-? footnotes: citations: Dr. Arthur Feldman, Brno, Czechoslovakia* date: by 1929 footnotes: *
*In 1939, shortly after the invasion of Czechoslovakia by Germany, the contents of Dr. Feldmann's home, including his drawings collection, were seized by the Nazis. Dr. Feldmann was arrested, tortured, and died in 1941. Mrs. Feldmann was deported to Theresienstadt and later perished at Auschwitz. The drawing is known to have been in Feldmann's collection as early as 1929, when it was seen by Dr. Otto Benesch and noted as in the collection of Dr. Arthur Feldmann. Dr. Benesch published the work in a 1933 article, "Beschreibender Katalog, Die Zeichnungen der Deutschen Schulen," indicating its provenance as "Feldmann Collection." The drawing was published again in 1940 by Kurt Steinbart in "Johann Liss der Maler aus Holstein" (and in a subsequent revised edition under the same title published in 1946), but the ownership, in both editions, was attributed to Dr. O. Feldmann (one of Dr. Arthur Feldmann's two sons). Dr. Benesch again published the work in 1951 in an article on Liss's "Temptation of St. Anthony," indicating its provenance as formerly in the collection of Dr. A. Feldmann. The Museum acquired the drawing from a London dealer, Herbert Bier, whose records indicate that he acquired the work that same year from R. A. Newton. In 2013, the Cleveland Museum of Art settled an ownership claim from the heirs of Arthur Feldmann, allowing the drawing to remain in the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art.
citations: Dr. O. Feldmann, Brünn, Austria date: ?1940 footnotes: citations: with Herbert N. Bier, London date: 1953 footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Benesch, Otto, Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Alfred Stix, Anton Reichel, and Konrad Oberhuber. Beschreibender Katalog der Handzeichnungen in der Graphischen Sammlung Albertina. Bd. 4. Die Zeichnungen der deutschen Schulen bis zum Beginn des Klassizismus : Text / bearbeitet von Hans Tietze [and others] -- Wien: A. Schroll, 1933. page number: Vol 4: p. 71, no. 625 (as Sammlung Feldmann, Brunn) url: Steinbart, Kurt. Johann Liss. Wien: Schroll, 1946. page number: p. 61, no. 36; illus. p. 36 (as collection of O. Feldmann) url: Bloch, Vitale, "Liss and His 'Fall of Phaeton,'" The Burlington Magazine Vol. 92, No. 571 (Oct. 1950): pp. 278, 280-282. page number: p. 281 url: Benesch, Otto, "Liss's 'Temptation of St Anthony,'" The Burlington Magazine Vol. 93, No. 585 (Dec. 1951): 376-377, 379. page number: p. 379 (as formerly collection of Dr. A. Feldmann, Brno) url: Schilling, Edmund, "Betrachtungen Zu Zeichnungen Von Johan Liss," in Schwingel, Karl. Festschrift für Karl Lohmeyer. Saarbrücken: West-Ost-Verlag, 1954: 30-38. page number: p. 31 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 583 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n109 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 114 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n138 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 114 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n138 Pignatti, Terisio. Venetian Drawings from American Collections: A Loan Exhibition, Organized and Circulated by the International Exhibitions Foundation, 1974-1975 : Introduction and Catalogue. [Washington]: International Exhibitions Foundation, 1974. page number: p. 22, no. 37 url: Richards, Louise S. and Rudiger Klessmann, Johann Liss: Exhibition Under the Protectorate of the President of the German Bundestag, Frau Annemarie Renger, the International Council of Museums (ICOM), and Supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, Washington. 1975. page number: p. 26; pp. 142-143, cat. B50, Fig. 53 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 134 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n154 Pignatti, Terisio. Disegni antichi del Museo Correr di Venezia: catalogo. Vicenza: N. Pozzi, 1980. page number: p. 24, illus. p. 23, fig. 16 url: Pallucchini, Rodolfo, and Maria Maddalena Palmegiano. La pittura veneziana del Seicento. [Venezia]: Alfieri, 1981. page number: p. 143 url: Kaufmann, Thomas DaCosta. Drawings from the Holy Roman Empire, 1540-1680: A Selection from North American Collections. Princeton, N.J.: Art Museum, Princeton University in association with Princeton University Press, 1982. page number: p. 202, cat. 79 url: Klessmann, Rudiger, "Addenda to Johann Liss," The Burlington Magazine Vol. 128, No. 966 (Mar. 1986): 191-197. page number: pp. 193, 194, fig. 24 url: Wojciechowski, Jerzy, "A Preparatory Drawing for Liss's 'Temptation of St. Anthony,'" The Burlington Magazine, Vol. 138, No. 1116 (Mar. 1996): 191-192. page number: p. 192, p. 192n7, 192n12. url: Klessmann, Rudiger, "Neue Funde und Betrachtungen zum Werk von Johann Liss," Münchner Jahrbuch der bildenden Kunst. Vol. LX. (2009): 59-90. page number: p. 65, fig. 7 url: Litt, Steven, "Cleveland Museum of Art settles claim over Johann Liss drawing said to have been taken by Nazis from Feldmann Collection," The Plain Dealer, May 26, 2013. page number: url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1953.6/1953.6_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1953.6/1953.6_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1953.6/1953.6_full.tif