Lot 39: Hans Caspar Lang , Schaffhausen 1571 - 1645 the crucifixion; with two other drawings: b) Follower of Lindtmayer, Horatius Cocles; c) the promise of abraham, after Christoph Murer all pen and black in; a) horizontal fold; b) over traces of black

Signed (partly in monogram) and dated, lower center: HCLang V Schaffhausen / in Friburg / .15.93. all pen and black in; a) horizontal fold; b) over traces of black chalk; c) horizontal fold; bears monogram: TS Quantity: 3

measurements note a) 270 by 190 mm; b) 294 by 254 mm; c) 236 by 261 mm

a) P. Boesch, 'Hans Caspar Lang von Schaffhausen', in Schaffhauser Beiträge zur vaterländischen Geschichte, vol. 25, 1948, reproduced fig. 7;
b) F. Thöne, Daniel Lindtmayer 1552-1606/7, Munich/Zürich 1975, pp. 244, 316, cat. no. 442, fig. 48

b) D. Schindler (L.793)

Scenes of crucifixion are unknown in Lang's works, but in the tradition of his time, he made many copies of works by other artists during the course of his travels. Between 1592-95 he worked in Freiburg-im-Breisgau, hence the inscription on the present drawing. The second, fragmentary drawing, showing the central scene of Horatius Cocles defending the bridge with an ornamental border to the left side, records an original design by Lindtmayer, which also only survives in fragmentary form without any of the decorative border.υ1 Thöne dates the original design to 1572, when Lindtmayer also made another drawing incorporating the same border as is seen in the present copy. The composition of the third drawing appears to derive from a lost series of designs by Christoph Murer illustrating the story of Abraham. Thöne proposed that the present work was executed circa 1610 and that the TS monogram might indicate that the drawing belonged to the Schaffhausen glass painter, T. Schryber.
1. Weimar, Schlossmuseum; Thöne, op.cit., pp. 147-8, 316, fig. 47