Saint Louis of Toulouse Holding a Staff, early 1460s

Not on View

Medium

pen and ink over stylus on laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 9.8 × 4.4 cm (3 7/8 × 1 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

William B. O'Neal Fund

Accession Number

1997.40.1

Artists / Makers

Giovanni Bellini (artist) Venetian, c. 1430/1435 - 1516

Image Use

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Inscription

by later hand, across verso in graphite: (illeg.) / Collection Collin / Chimothee della (illeg.) / 18 cor / 90 / h= 0,097 / L= 0,041 / B2988H (2) Cr=0 / 0-1 / Coll. M (illeg.)

Marks and Labels

various modern graphite inscriptions on verso, including "Collwction Collin," "Thimothee della.../Nar (?)," and "Coll.M"

Provenance

Charles Gasc [1818-1869], Paris (Lugt 543); Charles Molinier, Toulouse [1845-1910] (Lugt 2917); Tolentini; André de Hevesy, Paris (exh. Matthiesen Ltd., London, Feb.-April 1939, no. 93); Edward Holland-Martin, Esq. (sale, Christie's, London, 20 May 1966, no. 104, as School of Giovanni Bellini); (sale, Christie's, London, 22 November 1966, no. 133, as School of Giovanni Bellini); (P. & D. Colnaghi, London, 1966, no. 3); Denys Sutton [1917-1991], London, and by descent (sale, Christie's, New York, 30 January 1997 no. 2); purchased (via Colnaghi Drawings, London) by NGA, 1997.

Associated Names

Christie's
Christie's
Christie, Manson & Woods, Ltd.
Colnaghi & Co., Ltd., P. & D.
Colnaghi & Co., Ltd., P. & D.
Gasc, Charles
Hevesy, André de
Holland-Martin, Esq., Edward
Lonquety, Maurice
Molinier, Charles
Sutton, Denys
Tolentini

Exhibition History

1939: Exhibition of Venetian Paintings and Drawings Held in Aid of Lord Baldwin's Fund for Refugees, Matthiesen, Ltd., London, 1939, no. 93 (as Sebastiano del Piombo).

1969: Old Master and English Drawings, P. & D. Colnaghi, London, 1969, no. 1 (Venetian School, late fifteenth century).

2014: The Poetry of Light - La poesia della luce: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, Museo Correr, Venice, Venice, 2014 - 2015, no. 2.

2018: Mantegna and Bellini, The National Gallery, London; Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, 2018-2019.

Bibliography

1942: Dussler, Luitpold. Sebastiano del Piombo. Basel, 1942: 197, no. 244 (as not by Sebastiano del Piombo).

1944: Tietze, Hans, and Erika Tietze-Conrat. The Drawings of the Venetian Painters in the 15th and 16th Centuries. New York, 1944: 82, 93, no. 351, pl. XXXIV (as School of Giovanni Bellini).

1962: Heinemann, Giovanni Bellini 1(1962): 76, no. 272; 2(1962): fig. 116; 3(1991): 84, no. 343 (Forse un originale di Giovanni Bellini).

1991: Heinemann, Fritz. Giovanni Bellini e i Belliniani, Vol. III. Supplemento e Ampliamenti. Hildesheim, 1991: 32, no. 343.