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Fra Bartolommeo

One Angel Blowing a Trumpet, and Another Holding a Standard, c. 1500

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink, squared in red chalk for transfer on laid paper; laid down

Dimensions

overall: 16.9 x 13 cm (6 5/8 x 5 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Woodner Collection, Gift of Andrea Woodner

Accession Number

2006.11.5

Artists / Makers

Fra Bartolommeo (artist) Florentine, 1472 - 1517

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Provenance

Jonathan Richardson Sr. [1665-1745] (Lugt 2183), London; John Barnard [died 1784], London; John Thane [1748-1818], London; George John, 2nd Earl Spencer [1758-1834] (Lugt 1532), Althorp; William Esdaile [1758-1837] (Lugt 2617), London; Charles Sackville Bale [1791-1880], London; John Postle Heseltine [1843-1929], London; Henry Oppenheimer [1859-1932], London; (sale, London, Christie's, 10-14 July 1936, no. 29); Robert von Hirsch [1883-1977], Basel; (his estate sale, London, Sotheby's, 10 June 1978, no. 11); purchased by Ian Woodner, New York; by inheritance to his daughters, Andrea and Dian Woodner, New York, 1990.

Associated Names

Anonymous
Barnard, John
Esdaile, William
Heseltine, John Postle
Hirsch, Robert von
Oppenheimer, Henry
Richardson, Sr., Jonathan
Spencer, George John, 2nd earl Spencer
Thane, John
Woodner and Ms. Andrea Woodner, Dian, Ms.
Woodner, Andrea
Woodner, Ian

Exhibition History

1930: Exhibition of Italian Art, Royal Academy, London, 1930, no. 583.

1931: Italian Drawings Exhibited at the Royal Academy. Royal Academy, London, 1931, no. 191.

1983: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection, J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu and tour, 1983-85, no. 9.

1986: Dibujos de los siglos XIV al XX: Colección Woodner, Museo del Prado, Madrid, 1986-87, no. 14.

1986: Meisterzeichnungen aus Sechs Jahrhunderten: Die Sammlung Ian Woodner, Haus der Kunst, Munich and Vienna, 1986, no. 11.

1987: Master Drawings: The Woodner Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1987, no. 10.

1990: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1990, no. 12.

1995: The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995-1996, no. 21.

2006: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2006 - 2007.

2008: Medieval to Modern: Recent Acquisitions of Drawings, Prints, and Illustrated Books, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2008, no. 14.

2017: The Woodner Collections: Master Drawings from Seven Centuries, NGA, 2017.

Bibliography

n.d.: Ward, Roger. "Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection, Washington, D.C." The Burlington Magazine 126, no. 973 (April 1984): 252 (under no.. 9).

1886: Gruyer, Gustave. Fra Bartolommeo della Porta et Mariotto Albertinelli. Paris, 1886: 101, no. 4.

1903: Berenson, Bernard. The Drawings of the Florentine Painters. 2 vols. London, 1903: 2: no. 433.

1903: Knapp, Fritz. Fra Bartolommeo della Porta und die Schule von San Marco. Halle, 1903: 314, no. 1.

1922: von Gabeletz, Hans. Fra Bartolomeo und die Florentiner Renaissance. 2 vols. Leipzig, 1922: 2: 131, no. 303.

1938: Berenson, Bernard. The Drawings of the Florentine Painters. 3 vols. Chicago, 1938: II: 39, no. 433.

1961: Berenson, Bernard. I Disegni dei Pittori Fiorentini.3 vols. Milano, 1961: 2: no. 203 L-1; 3: fig. 372.

1981: de Gaigneron, Axelle. "Les Nouveaux Choix de Mr. Woodner." Connaissance des Arts. 348 (1981): 74-79 (reproduced p. 77).

1983: Matteson, Lynn R. "Old Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection." Pantheon. XLI (1983): 386-87.

1986: Fischer, Chris. Disegni di Fra Bartolommeo e della sua scuola. Exh. cat. Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe degli Uffizi, Florence, 1986, mentioned under no. 19 and no. 30.

1995: The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995-1996: no. 21.

2006: Grasselli, Margaret Morgan. "Fra Bartolommeo, One Angel Blowing a Trumpet and Another Holding a Standard, c. 1500," National Gallery of Art Bulletin 35, Fall 2006, 27.