FJK 103

Raimondi Marcantonio (Italian, Argini (?) ca. 1480–before 1534 Bologna (?))

Saint John the Evangelist (recto)
Woman in profile and figures presented as antique (verso)

ca. 1505-1506 according to Konrad Oberhuber
6 13/16 × 2 9/16 in. (173 × 65 mm)

Medium
Brown ink and pen on watermark paper

Collector’s mark “Carlo Prayer” bottom left (Lugt 2044)
Handwritten note in ball-point pen from 1977 and numbered on reverse: P/191

Origin

Captain Carlo Prayer Collection (1826-1900), Milan
Anna Maria Lilla Mendy de Bernasconi Collection (1977)
Juan and Felix Bernasconi Collection
Sale, Christie’s, London, July 5, 1988, no. 4
Jan Krugier Collection, Monaco, JK 4552
Jan Krugier Foundation

Bibliography

FAIETTI Marzia, OBERHUBER Konrad, Bologna e l’Umanesimo 1490-1510, exh. cat. Bologna, Pinacoteca; Vienna, Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Bologna: Nuova Alfa Editoriale, 1988, p. 76-77, fig. 39.

DÜCKERS Alexander, Linie, Licht und Schatten, Meisterzeichnungen und Skulpturen der Sammlung Jan und Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, Berlin: G & H Verlag, 1999, Catalogue raisonné, p. 415, ill.

RYLANDS Philip, The Timeless Eye. Master Drawings from the Jan and Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski Collection, Berlin: G & H Verlag, 1999, Catalogue raisonné, p. 414, ill.

Exhibitions

Madrid, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Miradas sin Tiempo. Dibujos, Pinturas y Esculturas de la Coleccion Jan y Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, 2000, p. 64, no. 17, color ill. p. 65.