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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.
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128285
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View of a Castle (recto); Eight-Sided Cup (verso)
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128285
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drawing
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View of a Castle (recto); Eight-Sided Cup (verso)
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.
date
1513
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CC0
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CC0
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en
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Q79908710
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12039
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Drawing
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1
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Sheet: 13.1 x 21.2 cm (5 3/16 x 8 3/8 in.)
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Austria
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1951.277
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pen and brown ink
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View of a Castle (recto); Eight-Sided Cup (verso), 1513. Wolfgang Huber (Austrian, 1490–1553). Pen and brown ink; sheet: 13.1 x 21.2 cm (5 3/16 x 8 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1951.277
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DR - Austrian
inscriptions
inscription
recto: upper center, in brown ink: 1513; lower left, in brown ink: v. h
verso: by artist?, across entire sheet, in black ink: [Ov]iduss Beschribet gar schon / Von einem Cunig Akteon / Wie er aing malß wolt jagen thain / jagt hin und da jm Holtze / fand er ein Göttin Rein vnd stoltze / Diana / die padet mit jeren junkfrauen / die pegünnt er an zu schowen / Daß es sie ser verdross / sy in mit Wasser pegoss / Zw [illegible] Hirschen un wissent / daß jm sin eigen Hünt zeryssen / Daß er sich zum Hirschen verkert / von seinen Hunden zerrissen zu d[illegible] / Erd [sideways]; upper center, in red chalk: [illegible, crossed out] / adltof.
didYouKnow
This sheet of paper, with drawings on both sides, as well as a poem, shows how artists in the Renaissance often used one sheet of paper for various purposes.
citations
citation
Weinberger, Martin. Wolfgang Huber. Leipzig: Im Inselverlag, 1930.
page_number
no. 18; pp. 56-57, 68, 231
citation
Halm, Peter, "Die Landschaftzeichnungen des Wolfgang Huber. Mit 35 Abbildungen," Münchner Jahrbuch der Bildenden Kunst VII (1930): pp. 1-104.
page_number
no 47; pp. 4, 8, 90-91
citation
Horn, Adam, "Eine Wiederentdeckte Alte Ansicht der Burg Harburg im Ries," Zeitschrift des Historischen Vereins für Schwaben LVII (1950): pp. 35-37.
page_number
pp. 35-37
citation
Francis, Henry. "A Pen Drawing by Wolfgang Huber." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>39, no. 3 (March 1952): 53-55.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 51; Mentioned: p. 54
citation
Heinzle, Erwin. Wolf Huber, um 1485-1553. Innsbruck: Universitätsverlag Wagner, 1953.
page_number
no. 14; pp. 11, 15, 46
citation
Oettinger, Karl. Datum und Signatur bei Wolf Huber und Albrecht Altdorfer; zur Beschriftungskritik der Donauschulzeichnungen. Erlangen: [Universitätsbund Erlangen], 1957.
page_number
no. 9, pp. 12, 25-26, 69
citation
The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
page_number
Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 582
citation
The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 112
citation
The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 112
citation
Talbot, Charles W., and Alan Shestack<em>. Prints and Drawings of the Danube School; An Exhibition of South German and Austrian Graphic Art of 1500 to 1560.</em> New Haven: Printed by the Carl Purington Rollins Printing-Office of the Yale University Press, 1969.
page_number
Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 11, p. 16, pp. 76-77, no. 78, pl. 41
citation
Stange, Alfred. Malerei der Donauschule. München: Bruckmann, 1971.
page_number
p. 96
citation
Rose, Patricia. Wolf Huber Studies: Aspects of Renaissance Thought and Practice in Danube School Painting. New York: Garland Pub, 1977.
page_number
p. 5 n4
citation
The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 131
citation
Winzinger,Franz. Das Gesamtwerk. München: Hirmer Verlag, 1979.
page_number
1: no. 22; pp. 7, 8, 82-83, 193, 2: p. VII, pl 22, A7, XIV
citation
Dunbar, Burton L., and Edward J. Olszewski. Drawings in Midwestern Collections: A Corpus. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1996.
page_number
no. 100, pp. 166-168.
citation
Cleveland Museum of Art, Diane DeGrazia, and Carter E. Foster. <em>Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art in association with Rizzoli International Publications, New York, 2000.
page_number
Mentioned: P. 150-51, 292; Reproduced: P. 151, cat. no. 60
citation
Dunbar, Burton L., et al. Sixteenth-Century Northern European Drawings. London, England: Harvey Miller, 2012.
page_number
no. 100, pp. 166-168
citation
Wood, Christopher S., and Albrecht Altdorfer. Albrecht Altdorfer and the Origins of Landscape. 2014.
page_number
p. 203
citation
Jenkins, Catherine, et al. <em>The Renaissance of Etching</em>. <br>New York, New York : The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 47; reproduced: p. 99, fig. 42
creditline
John L. Severance Fund
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2026-05-29 06:37:10.441000
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