Inscription
bottom right, brown ink, II; bottom left of mount, brown ink, by William Esdaile, 190-2-1803+; center of mount, brown ink, by Thomas Thane, The Death of St. Francis; bottom center of mount, brown ink, by Pierre-Jean Mariette, Bernadin Poccetti; verso of mount, bottom left, brown ink, by Esaile, WE 1803 P_b N 194, and bottom center, brown ink, Formerly in the coll.n of Mariette; verso of mount, center, graphite, by Thane, T Th; verso of mount, upper right, graphite, Similaire/catalogue dessin/Ashmolean Museum/pl. CX. Bernardino Poccetti; below, by Jacques Petothory, coll. W. Esdaile (1758-1837)/ Lgt 2617/ th. thane (1782-1846)/ Lgt 2433/L'inscription à la main "The Death of/St. Francis" est de Th. Thane / cf. catalogue Vente Christie's/29-6-71-no.109.
Provenance
Pierre-Jean Mariette, Paris [1694 - 1774] (Lugt 1852); (his sale, Paris, 1775, no. 607); LeBrun. William Esdaile, London [1758 - 1837] (Lugt 2617); (his sale, Christie's London, 18 June 1840, no. 29; Mr. Sheath. Thomas Thane, London [1782 - 1846] (Lugt 2433). Jacques Petithory, Paris (not in Lugt). Private collection, Boston; Wolfgang Ratjen, Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.
Exhibition History
- 1971
- Dessins du XVIe et du XVIIe siècle dans les collections privées françaises. Galerie Claude Aubry, Paris, 1971, no. 82.
- 1995
- Fünfzig italienische Zeichnungen des 16. - 18. Jahrhunderts aus der Stiftung Ratjen, Vaduz. Liechtensteinischen Staatlichen Kunstsammlung, Vaduz. Bern, 1995, no. 21.
- 1996
- Italian Drawings from the Ratjen Foundation, Vaduz. The Frick Collection, New York. Bern, 1996, no. 21.
- 2011
- Italian Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1525-1835, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2011, no. 25.
Bibliography
- 1972
- Bean, Jacob. Review of "Dessins français et italiens du XVIe et du XVIIe siècle..." Master Drawings 10, no. 2 (Summer 1972): 164.
- 1977
- Thiem, Christel. Florentiner Zeichner des Frühbarock. Munich, 1977: 269, 271, note 6 (under no. 11), pl. 228.
- 1980
- Hamilton, Paul G. Disegni di Bernardino Poccetti. Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence, 1980: 80, 90-92, under nos. 77-79.
- 1980
- MacAndrew, Hugh. Ashmolean Museum Oxford, Catalogue of the Collection of Drawings, Volume III, Italian Schools: Supplement. Oxford, 1980: 272 under no. 471.
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