The Arms of Habsberg Flanked by an Elegant Couple

Prints and Drawings

1587

Daniel Lindtmayer
Swiss, 1552-c. 1606

The Swiss artist Daniel Lindtmayer primarily made designs for stained-glass panels, a thriving luxury trade during the Renaissance. A typical example of this decorative genre, this drawing showcases a coat of arms likely commissioned for a member of the noble Habsburg family. The scribbled notes in the center of the drawing specify the color of the glass to be used, and the note in the cartouche below mentions a Habsburg defeat. A battle scene at the top seemingly pits the Habsburgs against the retreating Ottoman Turks, a likely reference to the intensifying Balkan-area border hostilities, which continued into the 17th century.

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Daniel Lindtmayer, II
Title: The Arms of Habsberg Flanked by an Elegant Couple
Place: Switzerland (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1582–1592
Medium: Pen and black ink and brush and gray and black washes on ivory laid paper
Inscriptions: Signed and dated below coat of arms, in black ink: "DL 1587"; inscribed with color notes in gray ink; inscribed, lower center: "W.G.D.A. 1591 / Habsberg ist abgestorben / beÿ Horb zu Instetten"
Dimensions: 32.9 × 20.7 cm (13 × 8 3/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 2013.972
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F. Warnecke, Musterblätter für Künstler und Gewerbetreibende, part II (1883), fig. 75.
F. Thöne, Daniel Lindtmayer 1552-1606/07 (Munich and Zürich, 1975), p. 193, no. 170, fig. 217.

Munich, Münchener Glaspalast, “Ausstellung der Werke älterer Meister,” 1876, part II, cat. 2579.
Schaffhausen, Museum zu Allerheiligen, “Daniel Lindtmayer 1552-1606, Handzeichnugen,” 1952, cat. 110.
Art Institute of Chicago, “The Thrill of the Chase: Drawings for the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection,” Mar. 15-June 15, 2014, no cat.

Possibly Johann Wilhelm Veith, 1758-1833. D. Schindler, by 1876. Freidrich Bürki; sold, Basel, 1881. Sold, Berlin, Amsler and Ruthardt, Apr. 24, 1895, lot 33. Sold, Berlin, Amsler and Ruthardt, June 25-27, 1908, lot 309. Prince Liechtenstein, Vienna, c. 1930. Sold, Sotheby’s, New York, Jan. 28, 2009, lot 6, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, MA; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2013.

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