Museum of Art
Artist: Unknown Artist (Italian, -)
Medium: pen and brown ink and brown wash over black chalk on paper
Dimensions: 10 1/2 in. x 8 in. (26.7 cm. x 20.3 cm.)
Credit Line: Bequest of the Honorable James Bowdoin III
Accession Number: 1811.55
- ""Fran. (co) P[. . .]"
Type: inscription
Location: verso
Materials: pen and brown ink - "John Smibert / 13"
Type: inscription
Location: verso of old mount (lost)
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)
- Myths and Metamorphosis
- Colby College Museum of Art. ( 11/3/2009 - 1/17/2010)
Placed by Witt as Italian, ca. 1600; by Oberhuber as Florentine, in the Vasari circle; and by Pouncey as possibly Sienese. Somewhat resembles an anonymous sheet in the Ashmolean (Macandrew 1980, cat. no. 61-4, repr. pl. 5). According to Professor Herwarth Röttgen (letter to the author, 14 August 1984), the iconography of Daedalus and Icarus with the prominent fishermen and boat is very unusual. This sheet and BCMA 1811.56 and BCMA 1811.54 bear old inscriptions referring to John Smibert's ownership (see History of the Collection, Becker, 1985).
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).