Two Friars on a Hillside [recto]

Fra Bartolommeo

Artist, Florentine, 1472 - 1517

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    Overall: 28.7 x 21.7 cm (11 5/16 x 8 9/16 in.)
    support: 41.1 x 27.9 cm (16 3/16 x 11 in.)

  • Accession

    1959.16.3.a

Associated Artworks

Bare Tree [verso]

Fra Bartolommeo

1472

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Bequeathed by the artist to Fra Paolino da Pistoia; given by him to his pupil Sister Plautilla Nelli (1523-1588), Convent of Saint Catherine, Piazza San Marco; purchased from the Convent in 1725 by Francesco Maria Nicolo Gabburri (1675-1742); possibly William Kent; purchased in southern Ireland in 1925 by a private collector; (sale, London, Sotheby's, 20 November 1957, no. 22, and mentioned p. V); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald, Alverthorpe, PA; gift to NGA, 1959.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1960

  • Old Master Drawings, Newark Museum, Newark, NJ, 1960, no. 10, repro.

1961

  • Masterpieces: A Memorial Exhibition for Adele R. Levy, Wildenstein & Co., New York, 1961, no. 61, repro.

1978

  • Master Drawings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art and Promised Gifts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1978, p. 34-35.

1988

  • Italian Renaissance Drawings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1988, no cat.

1992

  • Fra Bartolommeo: Master Draughtsman of the high Renaissance, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, 1992 (not in catalogue).

Bibliography

1984

  • Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 662, no. 1044 (recto).

Watermarks

Heart?

Wikidata ID

Q64562124

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