The Martyrdom of Saint Alexander of Bergamo
c. 1524
Artist, Venetian, c. 1480 - 1556/1557

Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and brown ink over graphite; some corrections on horse's head with white gouache; squared with graphite; on two sheets joined vertically
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall (approximate): 27.2 × 19.9 cm (10 11/16 × 7 13/16 in.)
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Accession
1971.46.2
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Private collection (sale, London, Christie's, 25 June 1968, no.77); to Lumley; (Hans M. Calmann [1899-1982], London); purchased by NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1974
Venetian Drawings from American Collections, International Exhibitions Foundation, circulated to National Gallery of Art, Washington, and tour, 1974-1975, no. 12 (Terisio Pignatti).
NGA Recent Acquisitions 1974, no. 25 (as Martyrdom of Saint Alexander of Bergamo).
1978
Master Drawings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art and Promised Gifts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1978, pp. 40-41.
1988
Italian Renaissance Drawings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1988, no cat.
2014
The Poetry of Light - La poesia della luce: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, Museo Correr, Venice, Venice, 2014 - 2015, no. 15.
Bibliography
1974
Recent Acquistiions and Promised Gifts: Sculpture, Drawings, Prints. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1974: 64-65.
Pignatti, Terisio. _ Venetian Drawings from American Collections_. Washingon, 1974: 11-12.
1975
Sutton, Denis. "Sunlight and Movement, Splendours of Venetian Draughtsmanship," Apollo (October 1974): 276-277, fig. 5.
1980
Rearick, William R. "Lorenzo Lotto: The Drawings, 1500-1525." In Lorenzo Lotto, Atti del Convegno Internazionale di Studi per il V Centenario della Nascita. Pietro Zampetti and Vittorio Sgarbi, eds. Treviso, 1980: 30-31, 36, note 44, fig. 12.
1984
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 664, no. 1051, color repro.
1995
Béguin, Sylvie. "Lotto disegnatore," in Disegni Marchigiani dal Cinquecento al Settecento, Atti del Convegno "Il Disegno antico nelle Marche e dalle Marche", ed. Mario Di Giampaolo and Giulio Angelucci. Florence, 1995: 24, note 10
2001
Rearick, William R. Il disegno veneziano del Cinquecento. Milan, 2001: 87.
Watermarks
six petaled flower above a single circle, a better form of Briquet 3119 (Como 1478)
Wikidata ID
Q64593360