Initial Q with a Procession of Children
c. 1430s
Zanobi Strozzi
Artist, Italian, 1412 - 1468
Artwork overview
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Medium
tempera and gold leaf on parchment
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 22.4 x 21.8 cm (8 13/16 x 8 9/16 in.)
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Accession Number
2013.130.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Possibly William Young Otlley [1771 - 1836], London.[1] Samuel Woodburn [1786-1853], London (sale, London, Christie's, 25 May 1854, lot 982); Henry George Bohn (sale, London, Christie's, 23 March 1885, lot 535); Sir Herbert Jekyll; (sale, London, Sotheby's, 7 September 1973, lot 14); purchased by Ian Woodner, New York; by inheritance to his daughters, Andrea and Dian Woodner, New York, 1990; gift to NGA, 2013.
[1] Ottley owned the "sister cutting to this" now in the Burke Collection (see Bibliography).
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1903
A Collection of Pictures, Drawings, Prints, China, and Decorative Furniture, 1903, Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, no. 42.
1926
A Collection of Pictures, Drawings, Pages from Illuminated Manuscripts, Furniture, and Objets d'Art, 1926-1927, Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, no. 1 (as "Large initial O, from an Italian Choir Book").
1983
Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection, J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu and tour, 1983-85, no. 2 (as Zanobi Strozzi).
1986
Dibujos de los siglos XIV al XX: Colección Woodner, Museo del Prado, Madrid, 1986-87, no. 3 (as Fra Angelico (?)).
Meisterzeichnungen aus Sechs Jahrhunderten: Die Sammlung Ian Woodner, Haus der Kunst, Munich and Vienna, 1986, no. 2 (as Fra Angelico or workshop).
1987
Master Drawings: The Woodner Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1987, no. 2 (as Fra Angelico (?)).
1990
Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1990, no. 3 (as Fra Angelico (?); not exhibited due to fragility).
1995
The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995-1996, no. 3.
2006
Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2006 - 2007.
2009
Heaven on Earth: Manuscript Illuminations from the National Gallery of Art, NGA, 2009.
2017
The Woodner Collections: Master Drawings from Seven Centuries, NGA, 2017.
Bibliography
1932
Ciaranfi, Anna Maria. "Lorenzo Monaco miniatore." L'Arte iii, issue iv (1932): 285-318.
1959
D'Ancona, Mirella Levi, Zanobbi Strozzi Reconsidered, Firenze: Olschki (1959): 14, n2, and n4.
1978
D'Ancona, Mirella Levi. "O Corali di S. Maria degli Angeli ora nella Biblioteca Laurenziana e le miniature da essi asportate." Miscellanea di studi in memoria di Anna Saitta Revignas. Florence (1978): 226.
1983
Matteson, Lynn R. "Old Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection." Pantheon. XLI (1983): 386-87.
1985
Garzelli, Annarosa. Miniatura fiorentina del Rinascimento, 1440-1525, un primo censimento. Florence (1985): 1: 17, and 2: 29.
1989
Eisenberg, Marvin. Lorenzo Monaco. Princeton, 1989: 110.
1992
Voelkle, William M. and Roger S. Wieck. The Bernard H. Breslauer Collection of Manuscript Illuminations. New York (1992): 194.
1994
D'Ancona, Mirella Levi. The Illuminators and Illuminations of the Choir Books from Santa Maria degli Angeli and Santa Maria Nuova and Their Documents. Florence (1994): 67-68, 71.
Kanter, Laurence B., et al. Painting and Illumination in Early Renaissance Florence, 1300-1450. Exh. cat. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1994: 283-284, fig. 113.
1998
Bollati, Milvia, Robert Gibbs, Sandra Hindman, and Susy Marcon. Medieval and Renaissance Illuminations. Brisigotti Antiques, 1998.
2021
Hindman, Sandra, and Federica Toniolo, eds. The Burke Collection of Italian Manuscript Paintings. London (2021): 174 and 176; repro. in color, fig.16.1.
Wikidata ID
Q64649437