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Approach to a mountain village

Maker

(artist)
1472-1517

Title

Date of Production

(circa) 1515 - 1516

Medium

pen and brown ink on laid paper; loss of lower right corner, inlaid into Gabburri's mount with brown ink and wash borders

Dimensions

Height: 29.2 cm
Width: 20.6 cm

Accession Number

D.1978.PG.83

Mode of Acquisition

Count Antoine Seilern, bequest, 1978

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords

Provenance

bequeathed by the artist to his fellow Dominican and disciple, Fra Paolino da Pistoia (c. 1490-1527); given by him before his death to nun and artist Suor Plautilla Nelli, Florence (1524-1588) [see P. Marchese, 'Memorie del piu insigni pittori...' 1878-79, p. 167]; bequeathed to her Convent of S. Catherine in Piazza San Marco, Florence; purchased there by Francesco Maria Niccolò Gabburri, Florence (d. 1742), 1725 [see Gronau 1957, p. iii], and bound all 41 drawings in an album in 1730 (as by Andrea del Sarto); purchased from him by William Kent (dealer active c. 1742-62), either around 1730 when in Italy, or with the rest of Gabburri's drawings collection in 1758 in Florence; unidentified English collection, where some of the drawings were copied by Robert Surtees of Mainsforth, County Durham, in 1768 [see Fischer 1990, p. 375]; purchased by a private collector in Southern Ireland, 1925 [Gronau 1957 p. v]; that collector's sale, Sotheby's (London), 20 November 1957, lot 2; purchased there by Colnaghi (London) on behalf of Count Antoine Seilern (1901-1978) (£1,400); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Exhibition History

Mantegna to Cezanne - Master Drawings from the Courtauld, British Museum, London, 24/02/1983-19/06/1983

Literature

Turi, Patrizio, 'Un disegno settecentesco del "Ratto di Dina" di Fra Bartolommeo' in 'Memorie Domenicane', 1994 - pp. 259-91; NS 25
p. 263n19

Pagnotta, Laura, Giuliano Bugiardini, Turin and Milan 1987
pp. 64-65 and p. 218 under no. 61
dated c. 1515-16

Fischer, Chris, Disegni di Fra Bartolommeo e della sua scuola, Florence 1986
p. 137 ...More

Mantegna to Cezanne: Master Drawings from the Courtauld, British Museum, London, 1983
cat. no. 9
ill. on p. 24

Byam Shaw, J., The Italian Drawings of the Frits Lugt Collection, Paris, 1983
vol. I, p. 23

The Princes Gate Collection - Drawings (Selection A), Courtauld Gallery, London, 1981-1982
p. 87 under no. 124
not exhibited

Bean, Jacob and Lawrence Turcic, 15th and 16th century Italian drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1982
p. 38 under no. 25

Drawings from New York Collection I. The Italian Renaissance, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 8 Nov. - 9 Jan. 1966, 1965
p. 33 under no. 30
entry author: Robert Lehman

Härth, Isolde, 'Zu Landschaftszeichnungen Fra Bartolommeos und seines Kreises' in 'Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz', Feb. 1960 - pp. 125-30; NB II
p. 127
fig. 2 on p. 126
discovered connection to Bugiardini painting

Seilern, Count Antoine, Italian paintings and drawings at 56 Princes Gate, London, SW7, London 1959; II
no. 83
pl. XXXVII
dated 1504-17

Sotheby's, London, Drawings of landscapes and trees by Fra Bartolommeo, 20 November 1957
lot 2
pl. 7 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Collector's mark: none.

Inscription: Support (historic), Recto: lower right corner, graphite: "4".

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