Northern village (recto)
Maker
(artist)
1472-1517
1472-1517
Title
Northern village (recto)
Date of Production
(circa) 1508
Medium
pen and brown ink (recto and verso) on laid paper, inlaid into a Gabburri's mount with brown ink and wash borders
Dimensions
Height: 28.3 cm
Width: 21.7 cm
Width: 21.7 cm
Accession Number
D.1978.PG.85
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 24; purchased there by Colnaghi (London) on behalf of Count Antoine Seilern (1901-1978) (£2,400); Princes Gate Bequest 1978
Exhibition History
Master Drawings from the Courtauld Collections, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 16/10/1991-19/01/1992
Mantegna to Cezanne - Master Drawings from the Courtauld, British Museum, London, 24/02/1983-19/06/1983
Mantegna to Cezanne - Master Drawings from the Courtauld, British Museum, London, 24/02/1983-19/06/1983
Literature
Master Drawings from the Courtauld Collections, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1991
cat. no. 4 (verso)
pp. 16, 171
ill. on p. 17 (verso)
Ellis, Charles S., 'Two drawings by Fra Bartolommeo' in 'Paragone', Jan.-Mar. 1990; XLI, N.S., No. 19-20
p. 15n19 (verso) and n22 (recto)
Fra Bartolommeo: master draughtsman of the high Renaissance, Boymans-van-Beuningen, Rotterdam; MFA, Boston; Kimbell Art Museum, Texas; Morgan Library, New York, 1990-92 Rotterdam 1990
p. 399n8 (watermark) ...More
Fischer, Chris, 'Fra Bartolommeo's landscape drawings' in 'Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz', 1989; 33
p. 341n74 (watermark)
Mantegna to Cezanne: Master Drawings from the Courtauld, British Museum, London, 1983
cat. no. 11
ill. on p. 26 (recto)
verso dated to 1508 as indicates a view in the Veneto, and that is when the artist visited Venice
Seilern, Count Antoine, Corrigenda and Addenda to the Catalogue of paintings and drawings at 56 Princes Gate, London, London 1971
no. 85
Härth, Isolde, 'Zu Landschaftszeichnungen Fra Bartolommeos und seines Kreises' in 'Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz', Feb. 1960 - pp. 125-30; NB II
p. 129n12
full article in file for D.1978.PG.83
Kennedy, Ruth Wedgwood, 'A landscape drawing by Fra Bartolommeo' in 'Smith College Museum of Art Bulletin', 1959 - pp. 1-12; 39
p. 7 and p. 9n27
Seilern, Count Antoine, Italian paintings and drawings at 56 Princes Gate, London, SW7, London 1959; II
no. 85
pls. XXXIX (recto), XL (verso)
dated 1504-17 (recto), 1508 (verso)
Sotheby's, London, Drawings of landscapes and trees by Fra Bartolommeo, 20 November 1957
lot 24
pls. 40 (recto), 41 (verso)
Jeudwine, W.R., 'Fine works on the market: a volume of landscape drawings by Fra Bartolommeo' in 'Apollo', Nov. 1957 - pp. 132-35; 66
p. 135
in file for D.1978.PG.83 ...Less
cat. no. 4 (verso)
pp. 16, 171
ill. on p. 17 (verso)
Ellis, Charles S., 'Two drawings by Fra Bartolommeo' in 'Paragone', Jan.-Mar. 1990; XLI, N.S., No. 19-20
p. 15n19 (verso) and n22 (recto)
Fra Bartolommeo: master draughtsman of the high Renaissance, Boymans-van-Beuningen, Rotterdam; MFA, Boston; Kimbell Art Museum, Texas; Morgan Library, New York, 1990-92 Rotterdam 1990
p. 399n8 (watermark) ...More
Fischer, Chris, 'Fra Bartolommeo's landscape drawings' in 'Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz', 1989; 33
p. 341n74 (watermark)
Mantegna to Cezanne: Master Drawings from the Courtauld, British Museum, London, 1983
cat. no. 11
ill. on p. 26 (recto)
verso dated to 1508 as indicates a view in the Veneto, and that is when the artist visited Venice
Seilern, Count Antoine, Corrigenda and Addenda to the Catalogue of paintings and drawings at 56 Princes Gate, London, London 1971
no. 85
Härth, Isolde, 'Zu Landschaftszeichnungen Fra Bartolommeos und seines Kreises' in 'Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz', Feb. 1960 - pp. 125-30; NB II
p. 129n12
full article in file for D.1978.PG.83
Kennedy, Ruth Wedgwood, 'A landscape drawing by Fra Bartolommeo' in 'Smith College Museum of Art Bulletin', 1959 - pp. 1-12; 39
p. 7 and p. 9n27
Seilern, Count Antoine, Italian paintings and drawings at 56 Princes Gate, London, SW7, London 1959; II
no. 85
pls. XXXIX (recto), XL (verso)
dated 1504-17 (recto), 1508 (verso)
Sotheby's, London, Drawings of landscapes and trees by Fra Bartolommeo, 20 November 1957
lot 24
pls. 40 (recto), 41 (verso)
Jeudwine, W.R., 'Fine works on the market: a volume of landscape drawings by Fra Bartolommeo' in 'Apollo', Nov. 1957 - pp. 132-35; 66
p. 135
in file for D.1978.PG.83 ...Less
Inscriptions
Watermark: Watermark: centre: a cup-shaped flower (closest match is Briquet 6664, Florentine paper dated 1508, see drawings in file; Christie's, 7 July 2010, lot 308 says that five of the drawings in the Gabburri album from which this derives bear the same watermark. Watermark analysed further in Fischer 1989, p. 341n74, as a mark more similar to that in paper used by Michelangelo in drawings of 1503/4 to mid-1520s).
Collector's mark: none.
Inscription: Support (historic), Recto: lower right, graphite: "26".
Collector's mark: none.
Inscription: Support (historic), Recto: lower right, graphite: "26".
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