Specifications
| Title | Head of Christ with the Crown of Thorns |
|---|---|
| Material and technique | Pen and brush and brown ink, heightened with white, on grey prepared paper |
| Object type |
Drawing
> Two-dimensional object
> Art object
|
| Location | This object is in storage |
| Dimensions |
Height 190 mm Width 185 mm |
|---|---|
| Artists |
Draughtsman:
Anoniem
: Francesco Francia (Francesco Raibolini) |
| Accession number | I 200 (PK) |
| Credits | Loan Stichting Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (former Koenigs collection), 1940 |
| Department | Drawings & Prints |
| Acquisition date | 1940 |
| Creation date | in circa 1500 |
| Watermark | not possible to determine, poor visibility, (vH, ?P (mount: vH, 6P)) |
| Inscriptions | 'k:34' (below centre, pen and brown ink); [...] ('upc'?) (verso, upper right, pencil), 'EE.54.' (idem, upper right, pen and brown ink), 'J.B. N: 155. 7 1/2 square' (idem, centre right, pen and brown ink), 'Born in Bologna An. 1450 [...] 1578' (centre, pen and brown ink and pencil), 'E. collectione Dni: Domini Joh. Somers' (below centre, pen and brown ink); 'Fran[ces]co Francia' (on removed Somers/Richardson mount, below centre, pen and brown ink, by J. Richardson), 'Christ crowned with thorns' (idem, below centre, pencil); 'es ven' (idem, below centre, pencil) |
| Collector | Collector / Franz Koenigs |
| Mark | G. M. Marchetti, bishop of Arezzo (L.2911 deest), J. Lord Somers (L.2981, inv. k. 34), J. Richardson Sr (L.2995, though not in his own coll.), both on the removed Somers/Richardson mount |
| Provenance | The collection of drawings (2638 sheets in 16 albums, this sheet in Album K, no. 32 #attribution) formed by Padre Sebastiano Resta (1635-1714, L.2992 deest) for Giovanni Matteo Marchetti, bishop of Arezzo (L.2911); John Lord Somers (L.2981: inv. 'k. 32', on a mount by J. Richardson Sr)*, acquired with the Marchetti Collection from Marchetti's cousin, the Cavaliere Marchetti of Pistoia, in 1710; John Barnard (1685-1764, L.1420), London; his sale, London (Greenwood) 16-23.02.1787, probably eighth night, in lot 14 (F. Francia, BP 0/5/0, to 'Smith T'); - ; Franz W. Koenigs (1881-1941, L.1023a), Haarlem, acquired in 1927 (North Italian, c. 1500); D.G. van Beuningen (1877-1955), Rotterdam, acquired with the Koenigs Collection in 1940 and donated to Stichting Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen |
| Exhibitions | Venice/Florence 1985, no. 16 |
| Research |
Show research Italian Drawings 1400-1600 |
| Literature | Aikema/Meijer 1985, no. 16, ill. (Venetian school, c. 1500); Ruggeri 1985, p. 235; Pizzoni 2020, p. 156 |
| Material | |
| Object | |
| Geographical origin | Italy > Southern Europe > Europe |
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