Mourners by Christ after taken down from the Cross. First edition of the lithograph.
Munich: Johann Baptist Stuntz, circa 1810-1816. Pen lithograph. 34 x 22.7 cm. (image). 35.5 x 24 cm. (sheet). Very Good. Light surface soiling. Rare.
British Museum:
Likely from 'Les Oeuvres Lithographiques, choix de dessins d'après les grands maitres de toutes les Ecoles, tirées du Musée de S.M. le roi de Bavière par Strixner, Piloty et Cie'. It was produced under the sponsorship of Aretin and von Mannlich. It was directed and mostly made by Strixner and Piloty, and was published by J Stuntz in Munich in 72 parts each of 6 sheets, with 432 prints in total, between 1810 and 1816 (so Düssler: no complete copy is recorded in London, and the BM only has oddments from it). It was followed by the separate series of plates after paintings, the 'Königlich Bayerischer Gemälde-Sammlung zu München und Schleissheim' in 1817-24. See Wolfgang Wegner in 'Oberbayerisches Archiv', 87 1965, pp.139-79.....Bibliographic references:
Winkler 1975 / Die Frühzeit der deutschen Lithographie
Dussler 1955 / Die Incunabeln der deutschen Lithographie 1796-1821. Item #71-1109
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