LOT DETAILS

Materials:

pen and brown ink

Measurements:

8.43 in. (21.40 cm.) (height) by 11.18 in. (28.40 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Drawings from New York Collections I: The Italian Renaissance, 1965, no. 32;. Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art et al., . Master Drawings from Titian to Picasso. The Curtis Baer Collection ,. Atlanta ,. et al., 1985-87, no. 2

Literature:

C. Gronau, Preface, . Catalogue of Drawings of Landscapes and Trees by Fra Bartolommeo, The Property of a Gentleman , Sotheby & Co., London, 1957, pp. II-V;. W.R. Jeudwine, A Volume of Landscape Drawings by Fra Bartolommeo,. Apollo , vol. 66, 1957, p. 135;. R.W. Kennedy, A Landscape Drawing by Fra Bartolommeo,. Smith College Museum of Art Bulletin , vol. 30, 1959, p. 10;. H. Joachim and S.F. McCullagh,. Italian Drawings in the Art Institute of Chicago , 1979, p. 24;. . Sixteenth-Century Italian Drawings in the New York Collections, exhib. cat., New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1994, p. 20, under no. 17, note 4

Provenance:

Bequeathed by the artist to Fra Paolino da Pistoia (1488-1547);. Inherited from him by Suor Plautilla Nelli in 1547;. Left by her to the Convent of Santa Caterina da Siena, Florence;. Cavaliere Francesco Maria Niccolò Gabburri (1676-1742), acquired from Gabburris heirs, around 1758 by art dealer William Kent;. Sold at auction in London, around 1760-1761;. Private collection, Ireland;. Anonymous sale, London,Sothebys, 20 November 1957, lot 14 (for £1900 to Lutgens);. Curtis Otto Baer (L.3366);. with Jill Newhouse Gallery, New York,. where acquired in 1998