Menu logoclose icon

Bowdoin College BCMA Logo Museum of Art

  • "No. 16 Francisco Bollognese"
    Type: inscription
    Location: verso of old mount (lost)
    Materials: pen and ink
  • "anibal carats"
    Type: inscription
    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)
		

Vitzthum was the first to point out that this sheet is a copy of an Annibale Carracci drawing in Budapest (repr. Master Drawings, vol. 5, no. 3 [1967], pl. 9; another, poorer copy is in the Uffizi [ibid., pl. 8]). Grimaldi is known to have made many copies of Annibale's landscape drawings (ibid., p. 259), and the old inscription supports the traditional attribution.

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).