Three Philosophers

Not on View

Medium

pen and black ink on laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 14.9 x 25.8 cm (5 7/8 x 10 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

Woodner Collection, Gift of Andrea Woodner

Accession Number

2006.11.26

Artists / Makers

Vittore Carpaccio (artist) Venetian, c. 1465 - 1525/1526

Image Use

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Provenance

Bindman Collection, Gateshead-on-Tyne, England; Pietro Scarpa, Venice; purchased by Ian Woodner, New York, March 1985; by inheritance to his daughters, Andrea and Dian Woodner, New York, 1990.

Associated Names

Scarpa, Pietro
Woodner and Ms. Andrea Woodner, Dian, Ms.
Woodner, Andrea
Woodner, Ian

Exhibition History

1986: Dibujos de los siglos XIV al XX: Colección Woodner, Museo del Prado, Madrid, 1986-87, no. 9 (as Vittore Carpaccio).

1986: Meisterzeichnungen aus Sechs Jahrhunderten: Die Sammlung Ian Woodner, Haus der Kunst, Munich and Vienna, 1986, no. 8 (as Vittore Carpaccio).

2022: Vittore Carpaccio: Master Storyteller of Renaissance Venice, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Palazzo Ducale, Venice, 2022-2023, no. 58.

Bibliography

1958: Fiocco, Giuseppe. "Postille al mio Carpaccio." Arte Veneta (1958): 230, fig. 264 (as Vittore Carpaccio).

1959: Mrozinska, Maria. I Disegni del Codice Bonola del Museo di Varsavia. Venice, 1959: mentioned under no. 63, p. 87 (as Giovanni Bellini).

1962: Lauts, Jan. Carpaccio: Paintings and Drawings. Complete Edition. Greenwich, CT 1962: no. 22, pl. 85.

1977: Muraro, Michelangelo. I Disegni di Vittore Carpaccio. Florence, 1977:47, fig. 63 (as Benedetto Carpaccio).