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Collection Online as of October 3, 2023

The Peasant Who Blew Hot and Cold (copy after Aegidius Sadeler)

c. 1610

after Aegidius Sadeler

(Flemish, c. 1570–1629)

Germany, 17th century

Pen and black ink and brush and gray wash

Support: Light brown laid paper laid down on cream(3) laid paper (gold embossed paper strips mounted to perimeter)

Sheet: 8.2 x 11.5 cm (3 1/4 x 4 1/2 in.); Secondary Support: 9.8 x 12.7 cm (3 7/8 x 5 in.)

The Norweb Collection 1954.682

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

upper center, in black ink: Kalt und warm ist grü[illegible] mündt. / Redt [illegible] aüs [einem?] [soglünst?] ; SECONDARY SUPPORT, across bottom, in black ink: Rusticus en efflat frigus simul atque calorem. Ægid. Sadeler invenit. ; VERSO OF SECONDARY SUPPORT, upper center, in graphite: No. 124 ; over entire surface, in graphite: [14 lines in undetermined language]

Provenance
Comte Bosio de Parma
Sir Charles Bagot
L. Southeran
Valentine
Comte Bosio de Parma (not in Lugt, not stamped). Sir Charles Bagot (Lugt 493, not stamped). L. Southeran (not in Lugt, not stamped). Valentine (not in Lugt, not stamped) (inscribed on an old mount, in blue ink, now removed: Collection [underlined] / Comte Bosio de Parma / Sir Chas Bagot / L. Southeran / Valentine [in brown ink])
Exhibition history

Drawings: Discoveries in the Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 7-October 28, 1990).

The German Tradition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 27-June 27, 1993).

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1954.682