FJK 099

Pontormo, Da (Jacopo Carucci) (Italian, Pontormo 1494–1556 Florence)

Study for the Head of the Old Man behind Pharaoh in Joseph in Egypt (recto)
Study for a Putto (verso)

ca. 1518-1519
5 5/16 × 3 15/16 in. (135 × 100 mm)

Medium
Red chalk on pink prepared paper

Inscription in brown ink on the reverse: Pontormo f.

Origin

Colnaghi, London & New York (1992)
Jean-Luc Baroni Ltd., London
Jan Krugier Collection, Monaco (acquired from previous owner during the Salon du Dessin in Paris, 2003), JK 6124
Jan Krugier Foundation

Bibliography

COSTAMAGNA Philippe, Pontormo. Catalogue raisonné de l’œuvre peint, Milan, 1994, pp. 11, 128-130, no. 22, ill.

NIGO Salvatore S., Pontormo. Fresken und Gemälde, Munich: Schirmer/Mosel, 1993, mentioned under pl. V. 4.

GIAMPAOLO Mario Di (ed.), Disegno italiano antico: Artisti e opere dal Quattrocento al Settencento, Milan, 1994, cover ill.

COX-REARICK Janet, “Aggiunte al corpus dei disegni del Pontormo: 1981-1994,” in Roberto P. Ciardi and Antonio Natali, Pontormo e Rosso. Atti del convegno di Empolo e Volterra. Progetto Appiani di Piombino, Venice: Marsilio Editori, 1996, p. 63, 195, fig. 15.

PLAZZOTTA Carol, BILLINGE Rachel, “The underdrawing of Pontormo’s Joseph with Jacob in Egypt,” in The Burlington Magazine, Nov. 2002, p. 668, note 19.

Exhibitions

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. 66, no. 25, color ill. p. 66-67.