FJK 092

Piero Di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo di Piero d’Antonio) (1462-1521)

Study for Madona and a Shepherd (recto)
Kneeling Angel Writing on the Ground and Two Shepherds (verso)

ca. 1510-1515, according to William Griswold
3 5/8 × 3 1/2 in. (92 × 89 mm)

Medium
Pen and brown ink on paper

Collector’s mark “Marquis C. de Valori” bottom left (Lugt 2500)
Collector’s mark “E. Wauters” upper left (Lugt 911)
Inscription in brown ink upper left on the reverse: gg
Unlisted stamp on mount (recto/verso)

Origin

Marquis Charles de Valori Collection (1820-1883), Paris
Collection Emile Wauters Collection (1846-1933), Paris
His sale, Frederik Muller & Co, Amsterdam, June 15-16, 1926, no. 45
Dr. Tobias Christ Collection, Basel
His sale, Sotheby’s, London, April 9, 1981, no. 4
Schneider Collection, Basel
Sale, Sotheby’s, New York, Arts of the Renaissance, January 25, 2001, no. 58
Jan Krugier Collection, Monaco, JK 5876
Jan Krugier Foundation

Bibliography

LEES F., The Art of the Great Masters, London, 1913, fig. 2 (recto), fig. 12 (verso).

BERENSON Bernard, The Drawings of the Florentine Painters (amplified edition), Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1938, vol. II (Catalogue), p. 259, no. 1859F.

BERENSION Bernard, I disegni dei Pittori Fiorentini, Milan: Electa Editrice, 1961, vol. II, p. 428, no. 1848A.

GRISWOLD William M., The Drawings of Piero di Cosimo, unpublished Ph. D., London, The Courtauld Institute of Art, 1988, vol. I, no. 25; vol. II, figs. 69-70.

Exhibitions

Paris, Musée Jacquemart-André, La Passion du dessin. Collection Jan et Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, 2002, p. 44, no. 11, color ill. p. 45.

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. 52, no. 18, color ill. p. 53.