A Kneeling Angel

c. 1500

Fra Bartolommeo

Artist, Florentine, 1472 - 1517

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink heightened with white over metalpoint on gray-blue prepared paper

  • Credit Line

    Anonymous Partial and Promised Gift

  • Dimensions

    overall: 22.3 x 15.3 cm (8 3/4 x 6 in.)

  • Accession

    2003.119.1.b

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

William Mayor, London, died 1874 (Lugt 2799). Baron Adalbert von Lanna [1836-1909], Prague. J.P. Heseltine, London, [d. 1929] (Lugt 1507). Paul Hermann von Schwabach [1867-1938], Berlin. Captain Norman Robert Colville [1893-1974]. Dr. and Mrs. Francis Springwell, Keswick, England. (their sale, Sotheby's London, 28 June 1962, no. 10); Hans Calmann [1899-1982], Somerset. John Goelet; (sale, Sotheby's New York, 17 November 1986, no. 6); Peter Jay Sharp; (Artemis, New York); Private collector.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1953

  • Drawings by Old Masters, Royal Academy, London, 1953, no. 24.

1959

  • Drawings by Old Masters from the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Francis Springell, P, and D. Colnaghi and The Hatton Gallery, London and Newcastle upon Tyne, 1959, no. 17.

1994

  • European Master Drawings from the Collection of Peter Jay Sharp. National Academy of Design, New York, 1994, no. 20.

2007

  • Private Treasures: Four Centuries of European Master Drawings, The Morgan Library and Museum, New York, and National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2007

Wikidata ID

Q64562143

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