Kneeling Hermit and Two Draped Figures Contemplating a Skull
1570s?
Artist, Italian, 1540 - 1599

Artwork overview
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Medium
pen with brown ink and touches of red chalk (at lower left) on laid paper, laid down on old mount
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 36.9 × 27.5 cm (14 1/2 × 10 13/16 in.)
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Accession
2016.180.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Galerie de Bayser, Paris). The Horvitz Collection, Boston, 1995 (mark verso, H in a diamond, not in Lugt)(inv. no. D-I-77); (his sale, Sotheby's New York, 23 January 2008, no. 10, unsold); gift to the NGA, 2016.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
by later hand, lower right of mount in graphite: Baccio Bandinelli; verso, left center in graphite: (3165); and at center: BANDINI. Two columns of text, written in French in pen and brown ink, apparently recording wages or payments made to military units.
Markings
Verso in black: H in a diamond, not in Lugt
Wikidata ID
Q64572308