Vignau-Wilberg [Schuurman] (Thea), born 1940
Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München

(26 cm), 454 pp., 84 colour, 169 black & white illustrations. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - A fine study of the international group of artists employed by Wilhelm V, Duke of Bavaria (1548-1626), whose “passion for court culture on a Florentine scale eventually led him to bankruptcy, and soon after to abdication and a life of solitary Catholic piety” (review by Dorothy Limouze, in Print Quarterly, volume 23, 2006, pp.451-453). The catalogue examines 174 drawings, prints and paintings, by Friedrich Sustris, Pieter Candid (de Witte), Joris Hoefnagel, Johan and Raphael I Sadeler, Hans von Aachen, Hendrick Goltzius, among others. Text in German and English. ¶ Very good, unmarked copy.