Kneeling Hermit and Two Draped Figures Contemplating a Skull, 1570s?

Not on View

Medium

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

Dimensions

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

Credit Line

Gift of Jeffrey Horvitz

Accession Number

2016.180.1

Artists / Makers

Giovanni Bandini (artist) Italian, 1540 - 1599

Image Use

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Inscription

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.

Marks and Labels

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

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

Horvitz, Jeffrey E.