After Giotto
1266?-1337
Holy Family Leaving Nazareth for Jerusalem to Celebrate Easter, St. Luke II, 41
11 1/16 x 10 1/4 inches (283 x 263 mm; maximum dimensions)
Pen and brown ink and wash, over black chalk, some stray marks in red chalk, on parchment; verso: document, 16th century, pen and brown ink.
I, 1b
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Notes
The drawing is almost an exact copy of the eighth fresco in the right transept of the Lower Church of St. Francis at Assisi, painted ca. 1320.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed on verso, in pen and brown ink, "N.̊ 35 / ... VME. PRO ... ANNI 8 / Die 13 settembris 1574 / Fuit ex libris me in nome ibi venditis / unius petij tema nat-ij fatio sub fol ̊10 in adven. Valerio Cioli delgensis ad fuorem de Thome pater mihi Ing. meum / Paulus Font[an]a[a superscript] / -48 / Prospero".
Associated names
Anonymous, Italian School, 14th cent., Formerly attributed to.
Gnoli, Umberto, 1878-1947, former owner.
Gnoli, Umberto, 1878-1947, former owner.
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Century Drawings
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