Artist: Pietro Antonio de Pietri (Attributed to) (Italian, 1663-1716)
Medium: black chalk on paper
Dimensions: 10 3/16 in. x 7 7/8 in. (25.9 cm. x 20 cm.)
Credit Line: Bequest of the Honorable James Bowdoin III
Accession Number: 1811.27.a.&.b
- "Pietro de Petri"
Type: inscription
Location: verso of old mount (lost)
Materials: pen and ink - anchor in circle, six-pointed star above
Type: watermark
Location:
Materials:
- 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)
The attribution is probably correct, though not to the artist's credit. The subject was very popular within the Maratti school.
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).