
Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and brown ink on laid paper
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Credit Line
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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 Number
1959.16.3.b
Associated Artworks

Two Friars on a Hillside [recto]
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.
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.
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).
Watermarks
Heart?
Wikidata ID
Q64562125