Lot 11: Christoph Murer , Zürich 1558 - 1614 Winterthur the prodigal son being entertained by musicians, the harvest taking place in the distance Pen and black ink and black and gray wash; also bears monogram of Tobias Stimmer and date in gray wash, lower

Pen and black ink and black and gray wash; also bears monogram of Tobias Stimmer and date in gray wash, lower center: TS 1589

measurements note 304 by 204 mm

R. Hasler, Die Scheibenriss-Sammlung Wyss, 2 vols., Bern 1997, vol. II, pp. 27-8, under cat. no 387, reproduced fig. 387.1

Werner Kübler, 1612, his signature and date in black ink, lower center

This design for a scene from the life of the Prodigal Son, in which only the left half of the frame is worked up, belongs to a series from which two other designs survive, both bearing the same inscription and date. The drawings are in Munich, and depict the Prodigal Son as a swine herd, and his ultimate return home.υ1 Both are heightened with gold, but not by Murer himself. A 1603 copy of the present drawing by Hans Rudolf Lando is in the Wyss Collection at the Bernischen Historischen Museum.υ2 It is not known who commissioned this unusual series of glass panels. See also lot 5. 1. Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, inv. nos. 40 475 and 40 476 2. Hasler, loc.cit.