Archer Drawing a Bow

c. 1505

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    black chalk and brown wash, heightened with white and squared for transfer on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Woodner Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 26.2 x 16.7 cm (10 5/16 x 6 9/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1991.182.13

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Rudolph Weigel, Leipzig, by 1854 (as Perugino); (sale, Christie's, 8 December 1987, lot 91, as Workshop of Perugino); (Succi Ltd., London, as Workshop of Perugino); Visual Art Company, Mies, Switzerland; purchased (via Anna Marie Edlestein) by Ian Woodner, New York, 4 July 1989; by inheritance to his daughters, Andrea and Dian Woodner, New York, 1990; gift to NGA, 1991.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1990

  • Woodner Collection: Master Drawings, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1990, no. 7.

1995

  • The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995-1996, no. 22.

1997

  • "Pietro Perugino: Master of the Italian Renaissance", The Grand Rapids Art Museum, 1997-1998, no. 18.

2006

  • Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2006 - 2007.

2017

  • The Woodner Collections: Master Drawings from Seven Centuries, NGA, 2017.

Bibliography

1854

  • Weigel, Rudolph. Handzeichnungen berühmter Meister aus der Weigelschen Kunstsammlung in treuen in Kupfer gestochenen Nachbildungen. Leipzig, 1854: no. 9 (as Perugino).

1995

  • The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995-1996: no. 22.

Inscriptions

by later hand, lower center verso in pen and brown ink: Perugino Maester van Raphael d'Urbino

Wikidata ID

Q64562110

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