Publius Mutius Condemning His Colleagues to be Burnt (a); Male Figure Study (b)

Domenico Beccafumi . Italy. ca. 1529-1535. red chalk on paper. Bequest of the Honorable James Bowdoin III. 1811.85.a.&.b.

Marks/Inscriptions

• "MVTIVS / TRIBVNVS" (inscription, bottom center, red chalk)
• "matrem Szad [fiduca?]" (inscription, bottom left, pen and brown ink)

Provenance

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

Exhibition History

• Why Draw? 500 Years of Drawings and Watercolors at Bowdoin College. Bowdoin College (5/3/2017, 9/3/2017)
• Beautiful Monstrosities, Elegant Distortions: The Artifice of Sixteenth-Century Mannerism. Bowdoin College Museum of Art (4/12/2016, 6/5/2016)
• Old Master Drawings from the Bowdoin College Museum of Art. Timken Museum of Art (5/13/2005, 8/14/2005)
• Drawing on Basics. Bowdoin College (10/14/1993, 12/19/1993)
• Domenico Beccafumi e il Suo Tempo. Monte dei Paschi di Siena (6/16/1990, 9/16/1990)
• Old Master Drawings at Bowdoin College. (5/17/1985, 6/29/1986)
• Mannerism in Prints and Drawings. Bowdoin College (2/28/1984, 4/9/1984)
• Drawings and Prints of the First Maniera, 1515-1535. Rhode Island School of Design (2/22/1973, 3/25/1973)
• A Selection of Italian Drawings from North American Collections. University of Saskatchewan, Regina Campus (1/16/1970, 4/3/1970)
• Old Master Drawings: from College and University Collections. The American Federation of Arts (10/1/1962, 10/21/1963)

Bibliography

Type: catalogue
Author: H. Johnson
Document Title: Catalogue of the Bowdoin College Art Collections
Publ. Place: Brunswick, Maine
Reference: no. 117
Remarks: (as Unknown)
Publisher: Bowdoin College
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. 117
Remarks: (as Unknown)
Publisher: Bowdoin College
Section Title: Descriptive Catalogue of the . . .
Date: 1930

Author: Catherine Monbeig-Goguel
Document Title: Il manierismo fiorentino
Publ. Place: Milan
Location: pp. 81-82
Reference: pl. 7
Remarks: (as Beccafumi)
Publisher: Fratelli Fabbri Editore
Date: 1971

Type: review
Author: J. Bean
Document Title: Master Drawings, vol. 9, no. 1
Location: p. 69
Remarks: (as Beccafumi)
Section Title: Selection of Italian Drawings from North American Collections
Date: 1971

Type: exhibition catalogue
Author: Walter Vitzthum
Document Title: A Selection of Italian Drawings from North american Collections
Publ. Place: Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
Location: pp. 12-14
Reference: no. 2, repr.
Publisher: University of Saskatchewan, Regina
Date: 1971

Type: exhibition catalogue
Author: David P. Becker
Document Title: Old Master Drawings at Bowdoin College
Publ. Place: Brunswick, Maine
Location: pp. 72-73
Reference: no. 32 (illus.)
Publisher: Bowdoin College
Date: 1985