Kneeling Hermit and Two Draped Figures Contemplating a Skull

1570s?

Giovanni Bandini

Associated Names
Giovanni Bandini

Artist, Italian, 1540 - 1599

This is a drawing of three robed figures. One holds a staff. Lines and shading are used to depict the figures. The central figure kneels with an extended arm. Rough forms suggest natural rock formations. Another figure in the background is holding a staff topped with a flame-like design. The drawing is made with fine line work and hatching, and it suggests historic or classical themes.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen with brown ink and touches of red chalk (at lower left) on laid paper, laid down on old mount

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Jeffrey Horvitz

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 36.9 × 27.5 cm (14 1/2 × 10 13/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2016.180.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Galerie de Bayser, Paris). The Horvitz Collection, Boston, 1995 (mark verso, H in a diamond, not in Lugt)(inv. no. D-I-77); (his sale, Sotheby's New York, 23 January 2008, no. 10, unsold); gift to the NGA, 2016.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

by later hand, lower right of mount in graphite: Baccio Bandinelli; verso, left center in graphite: (3165); and at center: BANDINI. Two columns of text, written in French in pen and brown ink, apparently recording wages or payments made to military units.

Markings

Verso in black: H in a diamond, not in Lugt

Wikidata ID

Q64572308

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