FJK 056

Gozzoli Benozzo (Benozzo di Lese di Sandro) (Italian, Florence ca. 1420–1497 Pistoia)

Male Nude Study

ca.1450-1460
D. 3 21/32 in. (93 mm)

Medium
Pen and brown ink on lightly red dry prepared paper
Tondo laid down on antique wove paper circled with lines in metallo-gallic ink

Origin

Granduca di Lucca Collection? (according to B. Degenhart et A. Schmitt)
Private Collection, Great Britain
Sale, Sotheby’s, London, July 5, 1993, no. 19
Jan Krugier Collection, Monaco, JK 5244
Jan Krugier Foundation

Bibliography

POUNCEY Philip, “Bernard Berenson : I Disegni dei pittori fiorentini,” in Master Drawings 2, 1964, vol. II, p. 283, no. 3, pl. 30a.

DEGENHART Bernard et SCHMITT Annegrit, Corpus der Italienischen Zeichnungen 1300-1450, Berlin: Gebr. Mann Verlag, 1968, vol. 2, part I, p. 463, no. 405; vol. 4, pl. 317b.

Exhibitions

Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Linie, Licht und Schatten. Meisterzeichnungen und Skulpturen der Sammlung Jan und Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, 1999, p. 16, no. 2, color ill. p. 17.

Venice, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, The Timeless Eye. Master Drawings from the Jan and Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski Collection, 1999, p. 20, no. 4, color ill. p. 21.

Madrid, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Miradas sin Tiempo. Dibujos, Pinturas y Esculturas de la Coleccion Jan y Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, 2000, p. 34, no. 3, color ill. p. 35.

Paris, Musée Jacquemart-André, La Passion du Dessin. Collection Jan et Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, 2002, p. 28, no. 3, color ill. p. 29.

Montefalco (Perugia), Chiesa-Museo di San Francesco, Benozzo Gozzoli (1420-1497). Alliero a Roma, maestro in Umbria, cat. by Bruno Toscano et Giovanna Capitelli, 2002 p. 206, no. 21, color ill. p. 207.

Munich, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Das Ewige Auge - Von Rembrandt bis Picasso. Meisterwerke aus der Sammlung Jan Krugier und Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, 2007, p. 22, no. 3, color ill. p. 23.

Request for information/loan

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