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Head and Shoulders of a Monk, Wearing a Cap

Follower of Fra Bartolommeo
1472-1517

Head and Shoulders of a Monk, Wearing a Cap

3 7/8 x 3 5/8 inches (97 x 93 mm; maximum dimensions)
Red chalk, over black chalk, with pen and brown ink (added later?), on paper.
1993.224

Gift of Janos Scholz.

Notes
Watermark: none visible through lining.
Formerly attributed to Lorenzo Costa, Ferrara ca. 1460-1535 Mantua.
Description

This drawing was previously attributed to Lorenzo Costa (Ferrara ca. 1460–Mantua 1535), following a suggestion by Philip Pouncey of 1960, who considered it to be very similar to a painting depicting a Portrait of a Cardinal now in the Minneapolis Institute of Art (Negro 2001, no. 67, XXXI). The comparison with the painting, however, is not close enough for such an attribution; instead the figure type seems to derive from Fra Bartolomeo, as noted by William Griswold. The drawing may well be a copy after a lost work by Fra Bartolomeo or his circle.

Associated names
Costa, Lorenzo, 1460-1535, Formerly attributed to.
De Beer, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department