Lot 23: CASPAR STRAUSS AUGSBURG CIRCA 1595 - 1663

THE TRIUMPH OF NEPTUNE AND AMPHITRITE

measurements note
260 by 392 mm

pen and black ink and grey wash over traces of black chalk

PROVENANCE

Bears stamped inventory number, verso: 80991

NOTE

The attribution was made by Dr. Tilman Falk, in a letter of 21 January 2002 to the present owners. Only some 16 drawings by the artist are known, so this is an important addition to the corpus of his graphic work. Falk dates the drawing to about 1630, the year when Strauss succeeded Johann Mathias Kager as official "Stadtmaler" in his native Augsburg. Three other drawings of parts of friezes with similar motifs are known, two in Munich and one in Bremen.