The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 19, 2024
Eight-Sided Cup (verso)
1513
Location: not on view
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This sheet of paper, with drawings on both sides, as well as a poem, shows how artists in the Renaissance rarely wasted paper.Description
This drawing depicts a castle in Southern Germany in the area around the Danube River known for its wooded and rocky heights and dramatic views. Wolfgang Huber's meandering, pen and ink lines describe the contours of the earth and the lushness of summer foliage in a horizontal layout that focuses on the middle distance with a barely recorded foreground. Huber may have made the drawing during a journey between Feldkirch and Vienna as he traveled along the Danube. In 1513 when this drawing was made, landscape was rarely depicted as a subject in and of itself, but artists in the Danube region such as Huber exhibited a profound sensitivity to nature. A drawing on the reverse of the sheet depicts a cup studded with gems and a poem written in a contemporary hand telling the mythological story of Actaeon's transformation into a stag when he intruded upon the goddess Diana and her nymphs bathing.- Arnold Otto Meyer, Hamburg; [his sale, C. G. Boerner, Leipzig, 19-20 March 1914, no. 300]; collection prince of Liechtenstein (according to cma files). Art market, 1930 (according to Halm 1930, 4); [Walter Feilchenfeldt, Zurich].
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Diane DeGrazia, 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. Mentioned: P. 150-51, 292; Reproduced: P. 150, cat. no. 60
- cma 1955c; cma 1958-59; cma 1960b; cma 1966-67a; New Haven et al. 1969-70, 11, 16, 76-77, no. 78, pl. 41; cma 1982-83b; cma 1988b; cma 1993b.
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