FJK 091
Passarotti Bartolomeo (Passerotti) (Italian, Bologna 1529–1592 Bologna)
Hands Study
ca. 1570-1575
15 29/32 × 10 5/8 in. (404 × 270 mm)
Medium
Pen and brown ink over sketch in black chalk on off-white paper
Origin
Robert Avelot Collection
Album Bruce E. A. Pollard-Urquhart
Anonymous sale, Sotheby’s, London, July 4, 1975, no. 19
Collection John Wisdom
Sale, Sotheby’s, New York, January 13, 1989, no. 33
Jan Krugier Collection, Monaco, JK 4667
Jan Krugier Foundation
Bibliography
HÖPER Corinna, Bartolomeo Passarotti (1529-1592), Worms: Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, 1987, part II, no. 268.
GHIRARDI Angela, Passerotti Pittore (1529-1592), Catalogo Generale, Rimini: Luisé Editor, 1990, p. 171-172, note 10, fig. 21d, p. 174.
MULLALY Terence, “Art in Bologna,” in Apollo, August 1992, p. 124, no. 2, ill.
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. 414, 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. 413, ill.
Exhibitions
London, Courtauld Institute Galleries, Drawing in Bologna 1500-1600, June 18 – August 31, 1992, no. 40, ill.
Notes
This drawing is related to a similar study of three hands from the same Bruce E. A. Pollard-Urquart collection (Eric Van Schaack, Master Drawings in Private Collections, Lambert-Spector, Inc., New York, 1962).
Request for information/loan
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