Art Treasures, Gracefully Drawn: James Bowdoin III and America's Earliest Drawing Collection

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The Assumption, with St. Philip Neri and St. Francis

Pietro Antonio de Pietri . Italy. 1663-1716. pen and brown ink, brown wash over black chalk on paper. Bequest of the Honorable James Bowdoin III. 1811.26.

Marks/Inscriptions

cardinal's hat over shield (watermark, )

Provenance

James Bowdoin III (Collector, Boston) -1811
Bowdoin College Museum of Art (Museum, Brunswick, Maine) 1811-

Exhibition History

Old Master Drawings at Bowdoin College. (5/17/1985, 6/29/1986)

Bibliography

Type: catalogue
Author: Henry Johnson
Document Title: Catalogue of the Bowdoin College Art Collections
Publ. Place: Brunswick, Maine
Reference: no. 35
Section Title: Pt. I, The Bowdoin Drawings
Date: 1885

Type: catalogue
Author: Bowdoin College Museum of Art
Document Title: Bowdoin Museum of Fine Arts, Walker Art Building
Edition: 4th
Publ. Place: Brunswick, Maine
Reference: no. 35
Publisher: Bowdoin College
Section Title: Descriptive Catalogue of the . . .
Date: 1930

Type: exhibition catalogue
Author: David P. Becker
Document Title: Old Master Drawings at Bowdoin College
Publ. Place: Brunswick, Maine
Location: pp. 158-159
Reference: no. 74 (illus.)
Publisher: Bowdoin College
Date: 1985