Attributed to Fra Bartolomeo
1472-1517
Virgin and Child and Standing Infant (St. John the Baptist?). Verso: Two Standing Draped Male Figures
8 3/16 x 9 7/8 inches (209 x 247 mm)
Black chalk on paper; verso: black chalk, pen trials in brown ink.
1986.89
Gift of Janos Scholz.
Description
Though poorly preserved and somewhat uninspired, the drawing may well be by Fra Bartolommeo himself, despite affinities with the work of Mariotto Albertinelli. A drawing with two studies for a standing Saint Sebastian and a further one of two standing nude boys, both in the Uffizi, are comparable in the handling of the black chalk (inv. 364F; von Holst 1974, 312, no. 44 and inv. 361F).
Inscriptions/Markings
Watermark: Fragmentary, animal (boar?) within a shield. (cf. Briquet IV, 13588. Nates (in Loire), 1490).
Associated names
Moscardo family, former owner.
Calceolari, Marquis de, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Calceolari, Marquis de, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Bibliography
Oakland and elsewhere 1961, no. 33; Hamburg and Cologne 1963-64, no. 59; Milwaukee 1964, no. 4; Los Angeles and elsewhere 1967-68, no. 14.
Drawings from Tuscany and Umbria, 1350-1700. Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, University of California Art Gallery, Berkeley. Berkeley : Gillick, 1961, no. 13.
Italienische Meisterzeichnungen vom 14. bis zum 18. Jahrhundert aus amerikanischem Besitz : Die Sammlung János Scholz, New York. Hamburg : H. Christians, 1963, no. 59.
Tuscan and Venetian Drawings of the Quattrocento from the Collection of János Scholz. Los Angeles : Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1967, no. 14.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twenty-First Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984-1986. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1989, p. 370.
Drawings from Tuscany and Umbria, 1350-1700. Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, University of California Art Gallery, Berkeley. Berkeley : Gillick, 1961, no. 13.
Italienische Meisterzeichnungen vom 14. bis zum 18. Jahrhundert aus amerikanischem Besitz : Die Sammlung János Scholz, New York. Hamburg : H. Christians, 1963, no. 59.
Tuscan and Venetian Drawings of the Quattrocento from the Collection of János Scholz. Los Angeles : Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1967, no. 14.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twenty-First Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984-1986. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1989, p. 370.
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