Collection Highlights: Stradanus Drawings at Cooper Hewitt

Cooper Hewitt is home to 143 sketches and one modello (a preparatory study) by the Netherlandish artist Johannes Stradanus, also known as Jan van der Straet (1523-1605). As one of the head artists at the Medici court in Florence, Stradanus worked as a painter and designer. He was also a prolific printmaker whose engravings circulated widely across Europe as well as Asia and the Americas. Cooper Hewitt's drawings were made as preparatory works for these engravings and provide valuable insight into Stradanus’s working methods and artistic networks. For more on the artist, including recent research and conservation, please visit The Stradanus Project, https://www.cooperhewitt.org/the-stradanus-project

  • Drawing, The Last Judgment
  • recto: pen and ink, brush and brown wash, black chalk on laid paper verso:....
  • Museum purchase through gift of various donors.
  • 1901-39-117
  • Drawing, The Marriage Feast at Cana
  • pen and ink, brush and brown and gray wash on paper, over black chalk on laid....
  • Museum purchase through gift of various donors.
  • 1901-39-119
  • Drawing, Wild Cat Hunt
  • recto: pen and ink, brush and brown wash on laid paper verso: pen and ink on....
  • Museum purchase through gift of various donors.
  • 1901-39-125
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  • Drawing, Saint Luke in a Niche
  • pen and brown ink, brush and wash over black chalk on laid paper.
  • Museum purchase through gift of various donors.
  • 1901-39-126
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  • Drawing, The Ship of the Church
  • pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over black chalk on laid paper.
  • Museum purchase through gift of various donors.
  • 1901-39-134
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  • Drawing, Piety
  • pen and ink, brush and brown wash, over black chalk on laid paper.
  • Museum purchase through gift of various donors.
  • 1901-39-135
  • Drawing, Agony in the Garden
  • pen and ink, brush and gray and gray-brown wash over black chalk on laid paper.
  • Museum purchase through gift of various donors.
  • 1901-39-139
  • Drawing, Homer
  • pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on laid paper.
  • Museum purchase through gift of various donors.
  • 1901-39-141
  • Drawing, Title Page
  • pen and brown ink, brush and gray and brown wash, black chalk on laid paper.
  • Museum purchase through gift of various donors.
  • 1901-39-149