Venus and Adonis
Francisco Vieira Lusitano (Attributed to) . Portugal. ca. 1725. red chalk on paper. Bequest of the Honorable James Bowdoin III. 1811.37.
Marks/Inscriptions
- "5" and red chalk monogram with letter P (inscription and monogram, verso, pen and brown ink)
- "No. 61 Il Portoguise" (inscription, verso of former mount (lost), pen and ink)
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. 43, repr. in large paper edition Remarks: (as "Il Portoguise") Section Title: Pt. I, The Bowdoin Drawings Date: 1885 Author: Rev. F. H. Allen Document Title: The Bowdoin Collection Publ. Place: Brunswick, Maine Location: pt. 3 Reference: no. 3, repr. Remarks: [five parts of four illustrations each, with individual texts] (as "Il Portoguise") Date: 1886 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. 43 Remarks: (as "Il Portoguise") Publisher: Bowdoin College Section Title: Descriptive Catalogue of the . . . Date: 1930 Author: M. Benisovich Document Title: Gazette des Beaux-Arts, ser. 6, vol. 45 Location: pp. 113-116 Reference: repr. fig. 2 Remarks: (as Quillard) Section Title: "Quillard aux État-Unis -- Une Découverte" Date: 1955 Author: M. Eidelberg Document Title: Master Drawings, vol. 19, no. 1 Location: p. 29 Reference: repr. pl. 29a Remarks: (as Vieira the Younger) Section Title: "Quillard as Draughtsman" Date: 1981 Type: exhibition catalogue Author: David P. Becker Document Title: Old Master Drawings at Bowdoin College Publ. Place: Brunswick, Maine Location: pp. 170-171 Reference: no. 79 (illus.) Publisher: Bowdoin College Date: 1985 Per David Becker 7/25/09: Two recent references (both of which mention our drawing) are below; the Library owns Master Drawings. Luisa Arruda, ed., Vieira Lusitano (1699-1783): O desenho [exh. cat.] (Lisbon: Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, 2000) [BCMA drawing repr. p. 86]. Nicholas Turner, "New Light on Vieira Lusitano as a Draftsman," Master Drawings, vol. 45, no. 3 (2007), pp. 367-86 [BCMA drawing discussed pp. 379-80, 386 note 37 (repr. p. 379, fig. 24).