Saint Filippo Benizzi Healing a Beggar

c. 1510/1520

after Andrea del Sarto

Associated Names
Italian 16th Century

Artist

Andrea del Sarto

Artist After, Florentine, 1486 - 1530

This is a drawing of a landscape with a group of figures. The scene features clouds at the top, a barren tree in the center, and rocky terrain. Various groups of figures are positioned in classical poses across different parts of the image. Some are shown in discussion while others interact with the environment. Architectural elements in the distance break the horizon to the right. The figures' garments and features suggest a narrative unfolding in the stylized natural landscape.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed within platemark): 33.1 × 22.5 cm (13 1/16 × 8 7/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1964.8.37

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hind 'Engravings', Vol. 1, p.218, no. 11

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Friedrich Quiring (1886 - ?), Eberswalde (near Berlin) [Lugt L.1041c]

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2005

  • Leonardo Da Vinci, Michelangelo, and the Renaissance in Florence, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 2005, no. 42.

Bibliography

1938

  • Hind, Arthur M. Early Italian Engraving; a critical catalogue with complete reproductions of all the prints described. 7 vols. London: Bernard Quaritch Ltd., 1938-1948.

1973

  • Levenson et al. 1973, no.189.

Inscriptions

recto: none; verso: at center right in brown ink in later hand: 53 [written sideways]; at lower center in graphite in later hand: c. 29674 / Hind I. 218. 11. (Plate 319) / Pass. V, 19,28.; at bottom left in graphite in later hand 60

Markings

recto: none; verso: Friedrich Quiring (Lugt L.1041c) and National Gallery of Art

Watermarks

none

Wikidata ID

Q65507067

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