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Head of a Roebuck with Monstrous Antlers (The So-called Wig Buck),
Monogrammist JZ (Jerg Ziegler)c. 1570
Renaissance and Reformation. German Art in the Age of Dürer and Cranach
Abnormally formed antlers were sought-after hunting trophies and found their way into court collections as curiosities. The wig-like growths result on male deer with insufficient testosterone. Hans Hoffmann, the court painter to Rudolph II, drew the same motif on precious parchment in Prague in 1589 to produce a showpiece (Kupferstichkabinett Berlin).
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- Title: Head of a Roebuck with Monstrous Antlers (The So-called Wig Buck),
- Creator: Monogrammist JZ (Jerg Ziegler)
- Date Created: c. 1570
- Physical Dimensions: 46.3 × 30.6 cm
- Technique and Material: Brush and watercolors and gouache, white heightening
- Provenance: Old inventory, first listed in the inventory in 1865
- Museum: Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Kupferstich-Kabinett
- Inv.-No.: C 2318
- ISIL-No.: DE-MUS-845516
- External Link: http://www.skd.museum/de/museen-institutionen/residenzschloss/kupferstich-kabinett/
- Copyright: Photo © Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Kupferstich-Kabinett/ Herbert Boswank; Text © Renaissance and Reformation: German Art in the Age of Dürer and Cranach, A Cooperation of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, and the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen München, Catalogue of the Exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Nov 20, 2016 – March 26, 2017, Munich: Prestel, 2016; cat. no. 89 / Claudia Schnitzer
- Catalogue: https://prestelpublishing.randomhouse.de/book/Renaissance-and-Reformation/Stephanie-Buck/Prestel-com/e504919.rhd
- Artist Dates: unknown
- Artist Biography: unknown
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