Museum of Art
Artist: Unknown Artist (Italian, -)
Medium: brush and brown ink over red chalk with touches of black chalk on paper
Dimensions: 7 11/16 in. x 5 3/16 in. (19.5 cm. x 13.2 cm.)
Credit Line: Bequest of the Honorable James Bowdoin III
Accession Number: 1811.110
- "Josip Arpinas"
Type: inscription
Location: verso of old mount (lost)
Materials: pen and ink
- 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)
Not Giuseppe Cesari (d'Arpino, 1568—1640). Stephen Pepper has drawn a parallel with Elisabetta Sirani. This sheet also resembles one ascribed to Giovanni Domenico Ferretti in Lille (repr. in E. A. Maser, "Addenda Ferrettiana," in Kunst des Barock in der Toscana, vol. 9 of Italienische Forschungen, 3rd. ser. [Munich: Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, 1976], p. 389, fig. 9).
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).