The Death of the Blessed Buonagiunta Manetti, c. 1612

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Medium

pen and brown ink with brown wash over black chalk, squared for transfer with red chalk on light brown laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 24.9 x 40.2 cm (9 13/16 x 15 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Patrons' Permanent Fund

Accession Number

2007.111.144

Artists / Makers

Bernardino Poccetti (artist) Florentine, 1548 - 1612

Image Use

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Inscription

bottom right, brown ink, II; bottom left of mount, brown ink, by William Esdaile, 190-2-1803+; center of mount, brown ink, by Thomas Thane, The Death of St. Francis; bottom center of mount, brown ink, by Pierre-Jean Mariette, Bernadin Poccetti; verso of mount, bottom left, brown ink, by Esaile, WE 1803 P_b N 194, and bottom center, brown ink, Formerly in the coll.n of Mariette; verso of mount, center, graphite, by Thane, T Th; verso of mount, upper right, graphite, Similaire/catalogue dessin/Ashmolean Museum/pl. CX. Bernardino Poccetti; below, by Jacques Petothory, coll. W. Esdaile (1758-1837)/ Lgt 2617/ th. thane (1782-1846)/ Lgt 2433/L'inscription à la main "The Death of/St. Francis" est de Th. Thane / cf. catalogue Vente Christie's/29-6-71-no.109.

Provenance

Pierre-Jean Mariette, Paris [1694 - 1774] (Lugt 1852); (his sale, Paris, 1775, no. 607); LeBrun. William Esdaile, London [1758 - 1837] (Lugt 2617); (his sale, Christie's London, 18 June 1840, no. 29; Mr. Sheath. Thomas Thane, London [1782 - 1846] (Lugt 2433). Jacques Petithory, Paris (not in Lugt). Private collection, Boston; Wolfgang Ratjen, Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.

Associated Names

Christie, Manson & Woods, Ltd.
Esdaile, William
Lebrun
Mariette, Pierre-Jean
Petithory, Jacques
Sheath, Mr.
Stiftung Ratjen
Thane, Thomas

Exhibition History

1971: Dessins du XVIe et du XVIIe siècle dans les collections privées françaises. Galerie Claude Aubry, Paris, 1971, no. 82.

1995: Fünfzig italienische Zeichnungen des 16. - 18. Jahrhunderts aus der Stiftung Ratjen, Vaduz. Liechtensteinischen Staatlichen Kunstsammlung, Vaduz. Bern, 1995, no. 21.

1996: Italian Drawings from the Ratjen Foundation, Vaduz. The Frick Collection, New York. Bern, 1996, no. 21.

2011: Italian Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1525-1835, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2011, no. 25.

Bibliography

1972: Bean, Jacob. Review of "Dessins français et italiens du XVIe et du XVIIe siècle..." Master Drawings 10, no. 2 (Summer 1972): 164.

1977: Thiem, Christel. Florentiner Zeichner des Frühbarock. Munich, 1977: 269, 271, note 6 (under no. 11), pl. 228.

1980: Hamilton, Paul G. Disegni di Bernardino Poccetti. Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence, 1980: 80, 90-92, under nos. 77-79.

1980: MacAndrew, Hugh. Ashmolean Museum Oxford, Catalogue of the Collection of Drawings, Volume III, Italian Schools: Supplement. Oxford, 1980: 272 under no. 471.