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JOHANN ANDREAS WOLFF (ATTRIBUTED TO) The Conversion of St. Paul.<>
Pen and brown ink and gray wash on cream laid paper. 295x186 mm; 11 5/8x7 3/8 inches. Trefoil in circle watermark. With an early attribution to Wolff in black chalk, verso. Ex-collection Christian Hammer (Lugt 1237, verso) and unknown collector, red ink stamp with the letter G in a square verso (not in Lugt).
The current drawing is based on Johann Michael Rottmayr's 1693 altarpiece of the same subject in the Cathedral of Passau (Hubala G 91 a). Wolff himself later executed an Adoration of the Shepherds<> for the Passau cathedral in 1698. A drawing which is clearly by the same hand with a traditional attribution to Wolff is in Nüremberg (Hefels 357), formerly in the collection of the 19th century Austrian art historian A. M. Pachinger (see Lugt 2010). Wolff was influenced by Johann Karl Loth, whose style is reflected in both drawings discussed here. Hefels also mentions a variant of the Nüremberg sheet in Berlin (Bock p. 366) and compares stylistical analogies with drawings attributed to Wolff in Munich.
