Museum of Art
Artist: Unknown Artist (Italian, -)
Medium: pen and brown ink and brown wash over graphite on paper
Dimensions: 10 3/16 in. x 8 1/8 in. (25.9 cm. x 20.7 cm.)
Credit Line: Bequest of the Honorable James Bowdoin III
Accession Number: 1811.39
- "Fresco Candidi"
Type: inscription
Location: verso
Materials: graphite - "Chev. dal Borgo 25"
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)
- Art, Science and Mind
- Prints/Drawings & Drawings/Prints, 1500-1800
- Bowdoin College Museum of Art. ( 8/4/2009 - 9/20/2009)
The lack of well-known drawings by Raffaello dal Colle (died 1566) renders the traditional attribution doubtful. The verso inscription refers to Peter Candid (ca. 1548—1628), a Flemish-bom painter who worked in Italy and Germany. This sheet is not by him, but it is by a Flemish artist working in Italy, according to Oberhuber. More recently, Lawrence Turčić has tentatively related it to the Genoese artist Paggi (letter to the author, 26 June 1984).
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).