A Kneeling Angel, c. 1500

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink heightened with white over metalpoint on gray-blue prepared paper

Dimensions

overall: 22.3 x 15.3 cm (8 3/4 x 6 in.)

Credit Line

Anonymous Partial and Promised Gift

Accession Number

2003.119.1.b

Artists / Makers

Fra Bartolommeo (artist) Florentine, 1472 - 1517

Image Use

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Provenance

William Mayor, London, died 1874 (Lugt 2799). Baron Adalbert von Lanna [1836-1909], Prague. J.P. Heseltine, London, [d. 1929] (Lugt 1507). Paul Hermann von Schwabach [1867-1938], Berlin. Captain Norman Robert Colville [1893-1974]. Dr. and Mrs. Francis Springwell, Keswick, England. (their sale, Sotheby's London, 28 June 1962, no. 10); Hans Calmann [1899-1982], Somerset. John Goelet; (sale, Sotheby's New York, 17 November 1986, no. 6); Peter Jay Sharp; (Artemis, New York); Private collector.

Associated Names

Artemis Fine Arts Inc.
Calmann, Hans M.
Colville, Norman Robert Captain
Goelet, John, Mr. and Mrs.
Heseltine, John Postle
Lanna, Adalbert von, Baron
Mayor, William
Nixon, Diane
Schwabach, Paul Hermann von
Sharp, Peter J.
Springell, Francis, Dr.

Exhibition History

1953: Drawings by Old Masters, Royal Academy, London, 1953, no. 24.

1959: Drawings by Old Masters from the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Francis Springell, P, and D. Colnaghi and The Hatton Gallery, London and Newcastle upon Tyne, 1959, no. 17.

1994: European Master Drawings from the Collection of Peter Jay Sharp. National Academy of Design, New York, 1994, no. 20.

2007: Private Treasures: Four Centuries of European Master Drawings, The Morgan Library and Museum, New York, and National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2007