Studies for Small Bronzes with Classical Motifs
1490s
Artist
Artist, Paduan, 1470 - 1532
Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and brown ink on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 16.7 × 25.5 cm (6 9/16 × 10 1/16 in.)
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Accession
2006.11.70
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Sir John Charles Robinson [1824-1913], London; sold to John Malcolm [1805-1893], Poltallach; given to Alfred E. Gathorne-Hardy [1845-1918], Newbury; Geoffrey Gathorne-Hardy [1878-1972], London; Robert Gathorne-Hardy [1902-1973], London; (sale, Sotheby's, London, 28 April 1976, lot 10); purchased by Ian Woodner [1903-1990], New York; by descent to Andrea Woodner; given to NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1971
Loan Exhibition of Drawings by Old Masters from the Collection of Mr Geoffrey Gathorne-Hardy, P.&D. Colnaghi, London and tour, 1971-72, no. 22.
1983
Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection, J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu and tour, 1983-85, no. 5.
1986
Dibujos de los siglos XIV al XX: Colección Woodner, Museo del Prado, Madrid, 1986-87, no. 12.
Meisterzeichnungen aus Sechs Jahrhunderten: Die Sammlung Ian Woodner, Haus der Kunst, Munich and Vienna, 1986, no. 9.
1987
Master Drawings: The Woodner Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1987, no. 9.
1990
Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1990, no. 11.
1995
The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995-1996, no. 10.
2006
Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2006 - 2007.
2014
The Poetry of Light - La poesia della luce: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, Museo Correr, Venice, Venice, 2014 - 2015, no. 5.
2017
The Woodner Collections: Master Drawings from Seven Centuries, NGA, 2017.
Bibliography
1869
Robinson, J.C. Descriptive Catalogue of the Drawings by the Old Masters, Forming the Collection of John Malcolm of Poltalloch, Esq.. London, 1869: no. 399.
1902
Descriptive Catalogue of Drawings ... in the Possession of the Hon. A.E. Gathorne-Hardy. Ballantyne Press, 1902: no. 41, 23.
1903
Berenson, Bernard. The Drawings of the Florentine Painters. 2 vols. London, 1903: 2: no. 1348, 11, 73.
1935
Scharf, Alfred. Filippino Lippi. Vienna, 1935: 131, 147, no. 325, 131.
1938
Berenson, Bernard. The Drawings of the Florentine Painters. Amplified ed. 3 vols. Chicago, 1938: 2: no. 1353a.
1961
Berenson, Bernard. I disegni dei pittori fiorentini. Revised and amplifed ed. 3 vols. Milan, 1961: 2: no. 1353a, 11, 264.
1971
Loan Exhibition of Drawings by Old Masters from the Collection of Mr. Geoffrey Gathorne-Hardy. Exh. cat. London, 1971: no. 22.
1973
Old Master Drawings Presented by Lorna Lowe, National Book League, London, 1973, mentioned under no. 36.
1975
Shoemaker, Innes H. "Filippino Lippi as a Draughtsman." Ph.D. diss., Columbia University, New York, 1975: 1:375, no. 114.
1983
Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection. Exh. cat. J. Paul Getty Museum, 1983: 24-25.
1986
Die Sammlung Ian Woodner. Exh. cat. Albertina, Vienna, 1986: 20-21.
Meisterzeichnungen aus sechs Jahrhunderten: Die Sammlung Ian Woodner. Exh. cat. Dumont, Munich, 1986: 20-21.
Dibujos de los siglod XIV al XX: Coleccion Woodner. Exh. cat. Fundacion Amigos del Museo del Prado, Madrid, 1986: 44-45.
1987
Master Drawings: The Woodner Collection. Exh cat. Royal Academy of Art, London, 1987: 36-37.
1990
Woodner Collection: Master Drawings. Exh. cat. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1990: 40-41.
1995
The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995-1996: no. 10, 76-79.
2014
Christie's, London. Sale cat. "Old Master and British Drawings and Watercolours." 10 July 2014: 7, under no. 103.
Inscriptions
by later hand, lower center verso in pen and brown ink: No 787
Watermarks
apparently a corruption of a serpent mark like Briquet 13629 (Milan 1438, with similar variants Bergamo 1444 and Rechberg 1444)
Wikidata ID
Q64618775