JOACHIM WTEWAEL (CIRCLE OF) (Utrecht 1566-1638 Utrecht) St. John the Baptist Preaching in the Wilderness.
Pen and brown ink and wash on cream laid paper mounted on thin card stock. 262x365 mm; 10 1/4x14 1/4 inches (octagon). With an attribution to Spranger in pencil, lower center recto. Ex-collection Curtis O. Baer.
Exhibited, "Dutch Mannerism: Apogee and Epilogue," Poughkipsie, Vassar Collge Art Gallery, April 15-June 7, 1970; and "Master Drawings from Titian to Picasso: The Curtis O. Baer Collection,"Atlanta High Museum of Art, May 31-August 24, 1986 (and 5 other venues), catalogue number 124.
According to a note in the 1985 exhbition catalogue, Anne Lowenthal suggested in a letter dated October 1, 1984, that this is one of a group of drawings assigned to an artist she called the Pseudo-Utewael who is possibly identical with Gerrit Pietersz. Eliane de Wilde has noted a similarity to the work of Frans Francken II (1581-1642).
