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Male saint

Maker

(artist)
1540-1599

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1488-1560

Title

Male saint

Date of Production

1560 - 1572

Medium

pen and brown ink on laid paper, laid down

Dimensions

Height: 40.1 cm
Width: 18.1 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.2726

Mode of Acquisition

Robert Clermont Witt, bequest, 1952

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords





Provenance

Sir Joshua Reynolds, London (1723-1792); possibly his estate sale, H. Phillips (London), 5 - 22 March 1798, any one of 11 lots listing Bandinelli; Sir Thomas Lawrence, London (1769-1830); Dr Sydney H. Nicholson, Chislehurst, Kent (1875-1947); his sale, Sotheby's (London), 5 May 1937, lot 4 (along with D.1952.RW.3877); purchased there by Colnaghi (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), 30 September 1937, for £5; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Baccio Bandinelli, 1493-1560: drawings from British collections, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 03/05/1988-03/07/1988

16th Century Italian Drawings from the Witt Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1969

Between Renaissance and Baroque: European Art 1520-1600, Manchester City Art Gallery, 1965

Literature

Baccio Bandinelli, 1493-1560: Drawings from British Collections, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 1988
no. 45
ill. on p. 130

Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Drawings and prints of the first maniera, 1515-1535, 1973
under no. 10

G.L. Conran, Between Renaissance and Baroque: European Art 1520-1600, Manchester City Art Gallery, 1965
cat. no. 252 (as Bandinelli) ...More

Middeldorf, U., 'Drawings by Giovanni dell'Opera' in 'Art Quarterly', 1939 - pp. 386-93; II
p. 393 ...Less

Inscriptions

Inscription: Verso (hidden under backing sheet, visible via transmitted light): right centre, red chalk: "6".

Collector's mark: collector's mark of Sir Joshua Reynolds (L.2364)

Collector's mark: collector's mark of Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b)

Collector's mark: collector's mark of Sir Thomas Lawrence (L.2445)

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