Museum of Art
Artist: Pordenone (Attributed to) (Italian, 1483-1484-1539)
Medium: pen and brown ink and grey wash on paper
Dimensions: 6 15/16 in. x 8 13/16 in. (17.7 cm. x 22.4 cm.)
Credit Line: Bequest of the Honorable James Bowdoin III
Accession Number: 1811.3.a.&.b
- "2 shilings No 40"
Type: inscription
Location: verso
Materials: pen and brown ink - "Del Purdenone"
Type: inscription
Location: former mount (lost), below
Materials: pen and ink
- James Bowdoin III( Collector, Boston) - 1811.
- Bowdoin College Museum of Art( Museum, Brunswick, Maine) 1811- . Bequest
- Old Master Drawings at Bowdoin College
- Bowdoin College Museum of Art. ( 5/17/1985 - 7/7/1985)
- Clark Art Institute. ( 9/14/1985 - 10/27/1985)
- University of Kansas. ( 1/19/1986 - 3/2/1986)
- Art Gallery of Ontario. ( 5/17/1986 - 6/29/1986)
Tietze and Tietze-Conrat were the first to reject the traditional attribution. Oberhuber has suggested investigating such late sixteenth-century mannerist artists as Filippo Bellini (see BCMA 1811.4) or even Friedrich Sustris (see BCMA 1811.15), although he agreed that this sheet is not by either of these artists.
Commentary credited to David P. Becker (or not otherwise captioned) appeared in his catalogue Old Master Drawings at Bowdoin College (Brunswick: Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 1985).