Initial Q with a Procession of Children

c. 1430s

Zanobi Strozzi

Artist, Italian, 1412 - 1468

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Artwork overview

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

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

1995

  • The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995-1996: no. 3.

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

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