Johann Matthias Kager
(München 1575 – 1634 Augsburg)
The four Cardinal Virtues: Design for the Title Page of "Bavaria Pia", c. 1625
Pen and brown ink with grey wash over pencil
24.7 x 18.1 cm
PROVENANCE
Bassenge, Berlin, sale 28-11-2014, lot 6247
Our sheet is the preparatory drawing for the title page of the publication "Bavaria Pia" by the Jesuit Matthaeus Rader, published in 1628 in Munich. Raphael Sadeler the Younger executed an engraving after this drawn model (Hollstein 228).