Attributed to Domenico Ghirlandaio
1449-1494
Christ Presented in the Temple. Verso: architectural study
ca. 1485
5 5/8 x 5 1/2 inches (143 x 139 mm)
Pen and brown ink on paper; verso; pen and brown ink.
2001.16
Purchased on the Edwin H. Herzog Fund.
Notes
The drawing may be an early, rejected design by Ghirlandaio for a fresco in the Tornabuoni Chapel in S. Maria Novella, Florence, which illustrates the Life of the Virgin and the Life of St. John the Baptist.
Associated names
Seibel, Elmar W., former owner.
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Century Drawings
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