FJK 125

Tura Cosmè (Cosimo di Domenico di Bonaventura) and Workshop? (Italian, Ferrara ca. 1433–1495 Ferrara)

Pietà

ca. 1472
14 31/64 × 10 9/32 in. (368 × 261 mm)

Medium
Pen and dark brown ink with white highlights on pink prepared paper laid down on paper
The Christ was reworked with brush, while some outlines and details have been redesigned

Origin

Sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, F. Lair-Dubreuil & Ed. Girard (Loys Delteil, expert), Estampes & Dessins, anciens & modernes, April 26, 1922, no. 162, ill. (Tura dit Cosmé?)
A. Stroelin Collection, Lausanne (1931)
Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Drey Collection, London
Paul Drey Gallery, New York
Jan Krugier Collection, Monaco (acquired from previous owner on May 23, 1983), JK 3723
Jan Krugier Foundation

Bibliography

HÄRTZSCH O., Katalog der echten und fälschlich zugeschriebenen Werke des Cosimo Tura(Ph. D partly published), Hamburg, 1931, pp. 41f (wrongly attributed: “genaue, aber leere Nachzeichnung noch des 15. Jhdts”).

GOMBOSI G, “Tura,” inThieme-Becker, 1933, vol. 33, p. 482 (Tura, study for the Venice Pietà).

MARIACHER Giovanni, Il Museo Correr di Venezia: Dipinti dal XIV al XVI secolo,Venice: Neri Pozza Editore, 1957, p. 222 (copy “certamente più tardo”).

RUHMER Eberhard, Tura, Paintings and Drawings, Complete Edition, London: Phaidon Press Ltd., 1958, p. 58, no. 95, pp. 175-176, no. 47-48, pl. IX (“Fragment of a drawing, reworked by a later hand”).

MOLAJOLI Rosemarie,L’opera completa di Cosimo Tura, Milan: Rizzoli Editore, 1974, p. 91, no. 61 (Tura).

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. 22, no. 5, color ill. p. 23.

Venice, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, The Timeless Eye. Master Drawings from the Jan and Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski Collection, 1999, p. 24, no. 6, color ill. p. 25.

Madrid, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Miradas sin Tiempo. Dibujos, Pinturas y Esculturas de la Coleccion Jan y Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, 2000, p. 36, no. 4, color ill. p. 37.

Paris, Musée Jacquemart-André, La Passion du dessin. Collection Jan et Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, 2002, p. 32, no. 5, color ill. p. 33.