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Diana and Callisto, between 1606 and 1608

  • Adam Elsheimer, German, 1574-1620

White lead gouache and black wash on laid paper

  • Sheet: 7 3/8 × 7 inches (18.7 × 17.8 cm)

Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps

09.1SDR109

John J. Peoli [purple collector's mark [L. 2020] on verso of paper support at lower right] (New York, New York, USA)

1894, American Art Galleries sale, no. 225 (New York, New York, USA)

1894-1909, James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Uhr, Horst. German Drawings and Watercolors. New York, 1987, pp. 26-27, no. 6 (ill.). Jacoby, Joachim. Die Zeichnungen von Adam Elsheimer: Kritischer Katalog. Frankfurt am Main, 2008, pp. 71, note 191 and 355. [attributed to Gerrit Battem, Dutch, ca. 1636-1684]. Dunbar, Burton, L., Robert Munman, and Edward Olszewski, ed. A Corpus of Drawings in Midwestern Collections. Sixteenth-Century Northern European Drawings. Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2012, p. 160, cat. 97 (ill.). Alsteens, Stijn. “Review: A Corpus of Drawings in Midwestern Collection, Sixteenth-century Northern European Drawings by Burton L. Dunbar,” Master Drawings, 51, no. 1 (Spring 2013): p. 111.

circle of Adam Elsheimer, Diana and Callisto, between 1606 and 1608, white lead gouache and black wash on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1SDR109.