Design for a Circular Dish
Artist Unidentified . Germany. 1500-1600. pen and brown ink and brown wash on paper. Bequest of the Honorable James Bowdoin III. 1811.56.
Marks/Inscriptions
- "John Smibeth" (inscription, center, graphite)
- "No. 457/illn. [monogram]" (inscription and monogram, verso, pen and brown ink)
- crowned L between two fleur-de-lis on crowned shield (similar to Briquet 8287, probably Lorraine manufacture, sixteenth century) (watermark, )
Provenance
- Bowdoin College Museum of Art (Museum, Brunswick, Maine) 1811-
- James Bowdoin III (Collector, Boston) -1811
Exhibition History
- Metamorphosis and Malice: Pontormo’s Three Monochrome Paintings from Renaissance Florence and Related Works. Bowdoin College Museum of Art (8/3/2023, 12/17/2023)
- Drawn Together - Five Centuries of Drawings from the Bowdoin College Museum of Art (in conjunction with Master Drawing New York 2020) . Bowdoin College (1/24/2020, 2/1/2020)
- Nature Inhabited. Bowdoin College Museum of Art (4/20/1995, 6/4/1995)
- Old Master Drawings at Bowdoin College. (5/17/1985, 6/29/1986)
- Drawings from Maine Collections. Colby College Museum of Art (5/14/1978, 7/16/1978)
Bibliography
Type: catalogue Author: Henry Johnson Document Title: Catalogue of the Bowdoin College Art Collections Publ. Place: Brunswick, Maine Reference: no. 72 Remarks: (as Smibert) Publisher: Bowdoin College Section Title: Pt. 1, The Bowdoin Drawings Date: 1885 Type: catalogue Author: Bowdoin College Museum of Art Document Title: Bowdoin Museum of Fine Arts, Walker Art Building Publ. Place: Brunswick, Maine Reference: no. 75 Remarks: (as Smibert) Publisher: Bowdoin College Section Title: Descriptive Catalogue of the . . . Date: 1930 Author: H. W. Foote Document Title: John Smibert Painter Publ. Place: Cambridge Location: p. 232 Remarks: (as sixteenth-century) Date: 1950 Author: M. S. Sadik Document Title: Colonial and Federal Portraits at Bowdoin College Publ. Place: Brunswick, Maine Location: pp. 216-217 Remarks: (as not by Smibert) Date: 1966 Author: M. Chappell Document Title: Art Bulletin, vol. 64, no. 1 Location: pp. 137 Remarks: (as not Smibert) Section Title: A Note on John Smibert's Italian Sojourn Date: 1982 Type: exhibition catalogue Author: David P. Becker Document Title: Old Master Drawings at Bowdoin College Publ. Place: Brunswick, Maine Location: pp. 26-27 Reference: no. 10 Remarks: (as German, sixteenth century) Publisher: Bowdoin College Date: 1985 Document Title: Artists in Maine, vol. I, no. 1 Publ. Place: Portland, Maine Location: p. 35 Reference: illus. Publisher: Artists in Maine Section Title: AM Book Review Date: 1986 Author: Julia W. Vicinus Document Title: Nature Inhabited Publ. Place: Brunswick, Maine Location: p. 12 Reference: no. 3 Publisher: Bowdoin College Date: 1995