Old Master Drawings

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Lot 26
  • 26

Swiss School, circa 1579

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
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Description

  • the waybel arms, with a wine-maker
  • Pen and black ink; vertical crease;
    inscribed in scroll: O MORS. QVAM DVRA TVA IVRA; and with name and date in cartouche, lower center: Hanns Waybel. Burger zu Kempten. / 1579.; further inscribed with color notes throughout 

Provenance

D. Schindler (L.793);
sale, Berlin, Amsler and Ruthard, 24 April 1895, lot 78, as anonymous master;
sale, Gütekunst & Klipstein, 24 December 1920 (?);
bears unidentified collector's mark, verso (L.168, A. Rump, according to Thöne) 

Condition

Unframed. Vertical crease in the centre. Small thin area towards lower left. A few small holes. Light brown stain, lower left, with some spreading of ink nearby. A few minor brown marks towards right edge. Otherwise good and fresh.
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Catalogue Note

The theme of this composition is thoroughly Swiss, but certain details of the design are very unusual, such as the protuding base and the voluminous column.  Beside the coat of arms stands a figure bearing a large container of grapes, while in the panels at the top, figures approach a wine cellar and others enjoy the wine itself with their meal.  Hans Waybel, who commissioned this design, was a leading citizen of Kempten in Allgäu, where his arms are recorded between 1574 and 1586.  Appropriately enough, a document of 28 March 1572 records his connection with the wine trade.  The style of the drawing seems more easily linked with the area around the Bodensee than with Kempten itself, so Waybel may have given his commission to an artist from that region.  The same draughtsman would appear to have been responsible for another drawing, tentatively attributed to Werner Kübler, in Munich.1

1. Staatliche Graphische Sammlung inv. 40472