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Soldiers Discovering the Body of Holofernes

A work made of pen and black ink and brush and black wash, over lilac wash, heightened with white gouache, on cream laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper.
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  • A work made of pen and black ink and brush and black wash, over lilac wash, heightened with white gouache, on cream laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper.

Date:

c. 1550

Artist:

Master of the Liechtenstein Adoration
Netherlandish, active c. 1530-1560

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Master of the Liechtenstein Adoration

Title

Soldiers Discovering the Body of Holofernes

Place

Germany (Artist's nationality:)

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1545–1555

Medium

Pen and black ink and brush and black wash, over lilac wash, heightened with white gouache, on cream laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper

Inscriptions

Verso center, in graphite: 64 (or 49?) (encircled)

Dimensions

18.2 × 28 cm (7 3/16 × 11 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Celia and David Hilliard and Harold Joachim Memorial Endowments

Reference Number

1999.683

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