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SZILVIA BODNÁR: On the Draughtsmanship of Caspar Freisinger

AUTHOR'S NOTE The study was supported hy the Hungarian Scientific Research Fund (OTKA), as project no. T 046616. NOTES 1 Beside approximately seventy drawings there are only two paintings, a few miniatures, and five etchings known by Freisinger, along with wall paintings in the Spitalkirche Ingolstadt. See H. Geissler, "Freisinger [Fraisinger], Caspar", in The Grove Dictionary of Art, ed. J. Turner, London 2003, vol. 11, 752-54; Zeichnimg in Deutschland

—Deutsche Zeichner 1540-1640, ed. H. Geissler, exh. cat., Stuttgart, Saatsgalerie, 1979-1980, vol. 2, 163-65. : L. v. Baldass, "Fraisinger, Caspar", in Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler, ed. U. ThiemeF. Becker, vol. 12, Leipzig 1916, 279-80. 3 Pen and black ink, with red wash on the leg of the figure, 203x144 mm, Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts, inv. no. 79. From the Delhaes Collection. Signed above: "Sum Casparij Fraisingerij / Pictoris Ingolst: Anno Domini 1581" Poems: bottom right: "Weisheit und Kunst kompt nit / urab Sunst. / Wer sie gern hat, findts / nit im beth. / Es gehert dar zu, fleis mihe / Arbeit, und Rue, / und die genad von Gott, / darnach so hats kein noth." [Wisdom and art do not come into being by chance. Whoever like them do not find them in bed. They can be achieved with diligence, labour, rest and with the help of God's grace. So nothing else is needed. "] Bottom left: "Wehr sie befleist etwas zu lernen, / kan sich alzeit darmit ernern." [If you work hard to learn something, you can always earn your living.] The word "ernern" is an earlier form of "ernähren". 4 H. Kuhn, "Die Alt-Ingolstädter Maler", Sammelblatt des Historischen Vereins Ingolstadt 56 (1938), 34, fig. 6 (online: www.bayerische-landesbibliothek-online.de/sammin/ bsb00005430_00140.jpg). 5 F. Thöne, "Caspar Fresingers Zeichnungen", Zeitschrift des Deutschen Vereins für Kunstwissenschaft 7 (1940), 39-63. 6 Ibid., 55-56, fig. 19, 59, cat. 13. 7 Pen, brush and black ink, with grey wash, heightened with white, 285x198 mm, signed bottom centre: "CF 1589 Ingolstadij." Inscribed on the verso with black ink: "Casparus Freisinger hat mier das Stück / gemacht den 2 februarius anno 90." Purchased in 1915. Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts, inv. no. 1915-1193. Ibid., 42, fig. 3, 59, cat. 14. A copy of this drawing is also preserved in Budapest: red chalk, heightened with white on blue paper, 290x205 mm, inv. no. K. 58.1093. * Ecce homo: New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, inv. no. 1999.310. See Stuttgart 1979-1980, cat. D 31; H. M. Kaulbach, Deutsche Zeichnungen vom Mittelalter bis zum Barock, Bestandskatalog, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Graphische Sammlung, Ostfildern 2007, 113, at cat. 176, n. 1. Veniis and Mars: London, The British Museum, inv. no. 1862,0712.190. See Thöne 1940, 43, fig. 4, 60, cat. 37. This