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Source 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.
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Document identity
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128286
label
View of a Castle (recto)
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drawing
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Source metadata
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128286
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drawing
title
View of a Castle (recto)
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
rights
CC0
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q79908711
creators
12039
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Drawing
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
Sheet: 13.1 x 21.2 cm (5 3/16 x 8 3/8 in.)
cul
Austria
accession
1951.277.a
Source extras
tec
pen and brown ink
tombstone
View of a Castle (recto), 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.a
supportMaterials
description
cream(3) laid paper, discolored to gray
collection
DR - Austrian
inscriptions
inscription
upper center, in brown ink: 1513; lower left, in brown ink: v. h
didYouKnow
This sheet of paper has drawings on both sides as well as a poem, indicating that paper was rarely wasted.
citations
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
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
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
creditline
John L. Severance Fund
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2026-05-29 06:37:11.322000
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128286
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Drawings
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DR - Austrian
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pen and brown ink
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male
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1
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0
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photo
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