A Saint Kneeling to the Left

Circle of: Domenico Ghirlandaio (in circa 1495)

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Title	A Saint Kneeling to the Left
Material and technique	Pen and brown ink, on brown prepared paper
Object type	Drawing > Two-dimensional object > Art object
Location	This object is in storage

Dimensions	Height 181 mm Width 122 mm
Artists	Circle of: Domenico Ghirlandaio Previously attributed: Fra Bartolommeo (Bartolomeo-Domenico di Paolo del Fattorino, Baccio della Porta) Previously attributed: Berto di Giovanni
Accession number	I 470 (PK)
Credits	Loan Stichting Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (former Koenigs collection), 1940
Department	Drawings & Prints
Acquisition date	1940
Creation date	in circa 1495
Watermark	top of ? in a circle, above a small French lily (fragment, upper part, 33 x 31 mm, above right, on P4 of 5P, vV)
Inscriptions	'Berto di Giovanni' (on fragment of removed mount, pencil)
Collector	Collector / Franz Koenigs
Mark	Fürst von Lichnowsky (L.1707); unknown mark, ?customs stamp, indistinct (not in Lugt?); W. Mayor (L.2799)
Provenance	Anon. (not from Gaburri albums); Fürst von Lichnowsky (1789-1845), Vienna/Munich, L.1707; William Mayor (-1874, L.2799)***, art dealer, London; - ; Art dealer Julius W. Böhler (1883-1966), Lucerne; Franz W. Koenigs (1881-1941, L.1023a), Haarlem, acquired in 1929 (Berto di Giovanni); D.G. van Beuningen (1877-1955), Rotterdam, acquired with the Koenigs Collection in 1940 and donated to Stichting Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
Research	Show research Italian Drawings 1400-1600
Material	Paper > Vegetable material > Organic material > Material > Material and technique Brown ink > Ink > Artist's material > Material > Material and technique Pen > Artist's material > Material > Material and technique
Object	Drawing > Two-dimensional object > Art object
Technique	Prepare > Prepared > Shaping techniques > General technique > Technique > Material and technique Prepare > Prepared > Shaping techniques > General technique > Technique > Material and technique
Geographical origin	Italy > Southern Europe > Europe

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Entry catalogue Italian Drawings 1400-1600

Author: Chris Fischer

Formerly attributed to Perugino’s student Berto di Giovanni (active in Perugia from 1497 to 1525), the drawing is more likely to be by a Florentine master associated with Domenico Ghirlandaio (1449-1494), whose system of cross hatching is adopted here in a very meticulous way. Fahy, who attached great importance to the conjectured collaboration of Fra Bartolommeo (1472/1474-1517) with the Ghirlandaio workshop, suggested verbally in 2004 that the study is an early work by him. This, however, is not substantiated if the Rotterdam sheet is compared with other early drawings by the young Fra Bartolommeo at Windsor^[1]or Oxford,^[2]where the penwork is more flexible and the sense of space more pronounced.

Footnotes

^[1]Royal Collection, inv. 912780. See also inv. 912784 verso.

^[2]Christ Church Picture Gallery, inv. JBS 56 (0125).

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