One Angel Blowing a Trumpet, and Another Holding a Standard

c. 1500

Fra Bartolommeo

Artist, Florentine, 1472 - 1517

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink, squared in red chalk for transfer on laid paper; laid down

  • Credit Line

    Woodner Collection, Gift of Andrea Woodner

  • Dimensions

    overall: 16.9 x 13 cm (6 5/8 x 5 1/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2006.11.5


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Jonathan Richardson Sr. [1665-1745] (Lugt 2183), London; John Barnard [died 1784], London; John Thane [1748-1818], London; George John, 2nd Earl Spencer [1758-1834] (Lugt 1532), Althorp; William Esdaile [1758-1837] (Lugt 2617), London; Charles Sackville Bale [1791-1880], London; John Postle Heseltine [1843-1929], London; Henry Oppenheimer [1859-1932], London; (sale, London, Christie's, 10-14 July 1936, no. 29); Robert von Hirsch [1883-1977], Basel; (his estate sale, London, Sotheby's, 10 June 1978, no. 11); purchased by Ian Woodner, New York; by inheritance to his daughters, Andrea and Dian Woodner, New York, 1990.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1930

  • Exhibition of Italian Art, Royal Academy, London, 1930, no. 583.

1931

  • Italian Drawings Exhibited at the Royal Academy. Royal Academy, London, 1931, no. 191.

1983

  • Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection, J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu and tour, 1983-85, no. 9.

1986

  • Meisterzeichnungen aus Sechs Jahrhunderten: Die Sammlung Ian Woodner, Haus der Kunst, Munich and Vienna, 1986, no. 11.

  • Dibujos de los siglos XIV al XX: Colección Woodner, Museo del Prado, Madrid, 1986-87, no. 14.

1987

  • Master Drawings: The Woodner Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1987, no. 10.

1990

  • Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1990, no. 12.

1995

  • The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995-1996, no. 21.

2006

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

2008

  • Medieval to Modern: Recent Acquisitions of Drawings, Prints, and Illustrated Books, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2008, no. 14.

2017

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

Bibliography

n.d.

  • Ward, Roger. "Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection, Washington, D.C." The Burlington Magazine 126, no. 973 (April 1984): 252 (under no.. 9).

1886

  • Gruyer, Gustave. Fra Bartolommeo della Porta et Mariotto Albertinelli. Paris, 1886: 101, no. 4.

1903

  • Berenson, Bernard. The Drawings of the Florentine Painters. 2 vols. London, 1903: 2: no. 433.

  • Knapp, Fritz. Fra Bartolommeo della Porta und die Schule von San Marco. Halle, 1903: 314, no. 1.

1922

  • von Gabeletz, Hans. Fra Bartolomeo und die Florentiner Renaissance. 2 vols. Leipzig, 1922: 2: 131, no. 303.

1938

  • Berenson, Bernard. The Drawings of the Florentine Painters. 3 vols. Chicago, 1938: II: 39, no. 433.

1961

  • Berenson, Bernard. I Disegni dei Pittori Fiorentini.3 vols. Milano, 1961: 2: no. 203 L-1; 3: fig. 372.

1981

  • de Gaigneron, Axelle. "Les Nouveaux Choix de Mr. Woodner." Connaissance des Arts. 348 (1981): 74-79 (reproduced p. 77).

1983

  • Matteson, Lynn R. "Old Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection." Pantheon. XLI (1983): 386-87.

1986

  • Fischer, Chris. Disegni di Fra Bartolommeo e della sua scuola. Exh. cat. Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe degli Uffizi, Florence, 1986, mentioned under no. 19 and no. 30.

1995

  • The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995-1996: no. 21.

2006

  • Grasselli, Margaret Morgan. "Fra Bartolommeo, One Angel Blowing a Trumpet and Another Holding a Standard, c. 1500," National Gallery of Art Bulletin 35, Fall 2006, 27.

Watermarks

cut off

Wikidata ID

Q64562136


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