Romulus and Remus
Framed: 21 × 17 × 1 inches (53.34 × 43.18 × 2.54 cm)
Drawings from the Holy Roman Empire, 1540-1680: A Selection from North American Collections, Princeton University Art Museum, October 3-November 21, 1982; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., January 27-April 11, 1983; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, April 23-June 19, 1983, no. 6.
Master Drawings from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: Kansas City, Missouri, Washington University Gallery of Art, St. Louis, MO, September 22-December 3, 1989, unnumbered, as Romulus and Remus.
Master Drawings from Polish Collections, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, April 17-June 6, 1993. NAMA addition.
Dürer to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, The Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK, June 23-August 18, 1996; The Cummer Museum and Gardens, Jacksonville, FL, September 20-November 29, 1996; The Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, December 21, 1996-March 2, 1997, no. 6, as Romulus and Remus.
Dürer to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Permanent Collection, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, July 12-September 6, 1998, no cat., as Romulus and Remus.
Mythological Subjects, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, June 12-December 15, 2013, no cat., as Romulus and Remus.
The artist Georg Pencz worked in Germany in the first half of the 16th century, but may have visited Italy. The classical subject matter here testifies to the influence of the Italian Renaissance north of the Alps.
Heinrich Kaspar Lempertz, Sr. (1816-1898), Cologne, Germany [1];
C. G. Boerner, Düsseldorf;
Purchased from Alden Galleries, through John W. H. Bender, Kansas City, MO, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1960.
NOTES:
[1] See Lugt 1337
Thomas DaCosta Kauffmann, Drawings from the Holy Roman Empire, 1540-1680: A Selection from North American Collections, exh. cat. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 1982), 10, 44-45, (repro.), as Romulus and Remus.
Roger Ward and Mark S. Weil, Master Drawings from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, exh. cat. (St. Louis, MO: Washington University Gallery of Art, 1989), 6-7, 10, 30, (repro.), as Romulus and Remus.
Roger Ward and Patricia J. Fidler, eds., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection (New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1993), 152, (repro.), as Romulus and Remus.
Roger Ward, Dürer to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 11, 17, 49-50, (repro.), as Romulus and Remus.
Deborah Emont Scott, ed., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, 7th ed. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2008), 61, (repro.), as Romulus and Remus.
