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FJK 102

Primaticcio Francesco (Italian, Bologna 1504/5–1570 Paris)

FJK 102 Primaticcio Francesco

Study of a Seated Figure

ca. 1540-1545
7 9/32 × 6 3/16 in. (185 × 157 mm)

Medium
Red chalk with white highlights on red prepared paper

Unidentified collector’s mark bottom right (Lugt 1708a)
Probably in Cardinal Antonio Santa Croce Collection, his inscription in brown ink bottom right: Rosso (unlisted in Lugt)
Unidentified collector’s mark on the back of support upper left (Lugt 504) and anonynous more recent
number: 279

Origin

Cardinal Antonio Santa Croce Collection (1598-1641)
Pierre Crozat Collection (1665-1740), Paris
Posthumous sale, aux Grands Augustins, Paris (expert P. J. Mariette), April 10-May 13, 1741, part of nos. 44-53
Lord Clive Collection (?) (Lugt 504)
Abel Laroche Collection, Paris (?) (Lugt 1708a)
Sale, Christie’s, New York, January 30, 1998, no. 205
Jan Krugier Collection, Monaco, JK 5549
Jan Krugier Foundation

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. 68, no. 27, color ill. p. 69.

Venice, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, The Timeless Eye. Master Drawings from the Jan and Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski Collection, 1999, p. 70, no. 28, color ill. p. 71.

Madrid, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Miradas sin Tiempo. Dibujos, Pinturas y Esculturas de la Coleccion Jan y Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, 2000, p. 88, no. 29, color ill. p. 89.

Paris, Musée Jacquemart-André, La Passion du dessin. Collection Jan et Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, 2002, p. 84, no. 30, color ill. p. 85.

Notes

This drapery study is comparable to two sheets of the same technique in the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, and The National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin. E. Brugerolles, The Renaissance in France, Drawings from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, exhib. cat., Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and elsewhere, 1995, no. 20 fig. 20a.

Christie’s, Old Master Drawings (part II), New York January 1998 (extract from)

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