A Saint Holding a Book
c. 1640
Artist, Genoese, 1600 - 1650
Artwork overview
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Medium
red chalk and brown wash, heightened with white and incised for transfer on wove paper; verso rubbed with red chalk covering a red chalk study of a reclining man seen from behind
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Credit Line
Gift of William B. O'Neal, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art
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Dimensions
overall: 28.8 x 19.5 cm (11 5/16 x 7 11/16 in.)
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Accession
1991.150.68
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Santo Varni, 1887 (Lugt undescribed); János Scholz, New York (Lugt undescribed); Helene C. Seiferheld, New York, 1962; William B. O'Neal [1907-1994], Charlottesville, VA, March 1962; gift to NGA, 1991.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1962
Faculty Collections, University of Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Charlottesville, October 1962 (as Bernardo Strozzi).
1971
Master Drawings from the O'Neal Collection, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond and tour, 1971-1972 (as Bernardo Strozzi).
1993
Drawings from the O'Neal Collection. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1993, 7.
1996
Drawings from the O'Neal Collection, Georgia Museum of Art, The University of Georgia, Athens, 4 May-16 June, 1996.
Inscriptions
by later hand, upper right in pen and brown ink: N 44; by later hand, lower right in pen and brown ink: No 74 Collezn Saint Varni; by later hand lower center verso in graphite: Strozzi, Bernardo / Vent de Sanctis, 1947 / (Kundig) No 243
Wikidata ID
Q64536832