Museum of Art
Artist: Unknown Artist (French, -)
Medium: black chalk, squared in black chalk on paper
Dimensions: 7 7/16 in. x 5 5/16 in. (18.9 cm. x 13.5 cm.)
Credit Line: Bequest of the Honorable James Bowdoin III
Accession Number: 1811.118
No marks or inscriptions identified for this object
- 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 sheet has been traditionally classified as Italian, but both Oberhuber and Eunice Williams feel that it is French. However, considering the large group of drawings by Maratti followers in the Bowdoin bequest, an Italian source is also possible.
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).