Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Holy Family

Artist: Unknown Artist (German, -)

Medium: pen and brown ink, brown and pink washes (verso: black chalk) on paper

Dimensions: 4 in. x 3 3/8 in. (10.1 cm. x 8.5 cm.)

Credit Line: Bequest of the Honorable James Bowdoin III

Accession Number: 1811.47

• "Ho:B"
  Type: inscription
  Location: lower left
  Materials: pen and brown ink
• "No. 238"
  Type: inscription
  Location: verso
  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)
• Monotheism & Masculinity
  • Bowdoin College Museum of Art. ( 10/5/2004 - 11/7/2004)

Oberhuber very tentatively placed this sheet as German; traditionally thought to be Italian, it could be after an Italian model.

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).