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"Speak Not Against the Sun" and "Do Not Make Water Facing the Sun" [fol. 39 recto]
French early 16th Century
- Date
- c. 1512/1515
- Medium
- pen and brown ink with watercolor and stylus on laid paper
- Dimensions
- overall: 16.3 x 10.7 cm (6 7/16 x 4 3/16 in.)
- Classification
- Drawing
- Accession number
- 2006.11.54
- Credit line
- Woodner Collection, Gift of Andrea Woodner
- Time span
- 1501 to 1550
- Department
- CG-E
Portfolio and series
- Series
- Speculum principis (Mirror for Princes)
Subjects and terms
- French
- Costume
- Moon
- Hat
- Sword
- Building
Provenance
(Sale, London, Sotheby's, 13 July 1937, lot 64); (sale, London, Sotheby's, 15-17 November 1937, lot 546); (sale, London, Maggs Bros., Ltd., catalogue 709, 1941, no. 30); (purchased by William H. Schab Gallery via Paul Graupe); purchased by Ian Woodner, New York, by 1973; by inheritance to his daughters, Andrea and Dian Woodner, New York, 1990.
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