Francesco Granacci
1469?-1543
Two Groups of Standing Apostles. Verso: Faint Skteches of Figures, Including an Angel
6 3/8 x 9 inches (162 x 227 mm; maximum dimensions)
Black chalk, with white opaque watercolor, on light brown paper; verso: black chalk.
1986.73:1
Gift of Janos Scholz.
Notes
Leaf from a sketchbook.
After Francesco Botticini, Florence 1446/7-1498 Florence.
The figures on the recto correspond to six of the apostles who surround the empty sarcophagus of the Virgin in Francesco Botticini's visionary painting "The Coronation of the Virgin", now in the National Gallery, London. The three apostles on the left in the Library's drawing stand to the right of the sarcophagus in the picture by Botticini, while the three on the right in the drawing appear on the left in the painting.
After Francesco Botticini, Florence 1446/7-1498 Florence.
The figures on the recto correspond to six of the apostles who surround the empty sarcophagus of the Virgin in Francesco Botticini's visionary painting "The Coronation of the Virgin", now in the National Gallery, London. The three apostles on the left in the Library's drawing stand to the right of the sarcophagus in the picture by Botticini, while the three on the right in the drawing appear on the left in the painting.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed in lower right corner, in pen and brown ink, "39"; on verso, at lower left, in pen and brown ink, "Lgruner".
Watermark: Indecipherable fragment, possibly part of a shield.
Watermark: Indecipherable fragment, possibly part of a shield.
Associated names
Ghirlandaio, Domenico, 1449-1494, Follower of, Formerly attributed to.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Gruner, L., former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Gruner, L., former owner.
Bibliography
Tuscan and Venetian Drawings of the Quattrocento from the Collection of János Scholz. Los Angeles : Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1967, no. 20.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twenty-First Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984-1986. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1989, p. 343.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twenty-First Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984-1986. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1989, p. 343.
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