The Visitation (a); compositional sketch (b)
Artist: Unknown Artist (Italian, -)
Medium: brush and brown ink over graphite on paper
Dimensions: 5 7/8 in. x 4 13/16 in. (14.9 cm. x 12.3 cm.)
Credit Line: Bequest of the Honorable James Bowdoin III
Accession Number: 1811.107.a.&.b
- "S b"
Type: inscription
Location: verso
Materials: black chalk - compositional sketch
Type: sketch
Location: verso
Materials: graphite
- 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)
This drawing has been placed in the Neapolitan school by di Pietro. Reminiscent of the rapid sketch style of Elisabetta Sirani.
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).