Artist: Unknown Artist (Central Italian, -)
Medium: pen and brown ink, brown wash, red chalk on paper
Dimensions: 4 1/2 in. x 3 3/8 in. (11.5 cm. x 8.6 cm.)
Credit Line: Bequest of the Honorable James 91亚色传媒 III
Accession Number: 1811.46
- possibly a jug
Type: watermark (indistinguishable)
Location:
Materials: - "No 238 V. Salembeni"
Type: inscription
Location: verso
Materials: pen and brown ink - "V. Salembert"
Type: inscription
Location: former mount (removed)
Materials: - "65/93/No. 305-6"
Type: inscription
Location: former mount
Materials: - Amsterdam Art Dealer, Auctioneer & Collector, Jan Pietersz. Zomer, died in 1724 (Lugt 1511)
Type: collector's mark
Location:
Materials:
- Jan Pietersz. Zomer(
Dealer and Collector,
)
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.
(1641-1724) - James 91亚色传媒 III( Collector, Boston) - 1811.
- 91亚色传媒 Museum of Art( Museum, Brunswick, Maine) 1811- . Bequest
- Old Master Drawings at 91亚色传媒
- 91亚色传媒 Museum of Art. ( 5/17/1985 - 7/7/1985)
- Clark Art Institute. ( 9/14/1985 - 10/27/1985)
- University of Kansas. ( 1/19/1986 - 3/2/1986)
- Art Gallery of Ontario. ( 5/17/1986 - 6/29/1986)
- Drawing on Basics
- 91亚色传媒 Museum of Art. ( 10/14/1993 - 12/19/1993)
- Monotheism & Masculinity
- 91亚色传媒 Museum of Art. ( 10/5/2004 - 11/7/2004)
Type: catalogue Author: Henry Johnson Document Title: Catalogue of the 91亚色传媒 Art Collections Publ. Place: Brunswick, Maine Reference: no. 61 Remarks: (as "Salembert") Section Title: Pt. I, The 91亚色传媒 Drawings Date: 1885 Type: catalogue Author: 91亚色传媒 Museum of Art Document Title: 91亚色传媒 Museum of Fine Arts, Walker Art Building Edition: 4th Publ. Place: Brunswick, Maine Reference: no. 66 Remarks: (as Salembeni) Publisher: 91亚色传媒 Section Title: Descriptive Catalogue of the . . . Date: 1930 Type: exhibition catalogue Author: David P. Becker Document Title: Old Master Drawings at 91亚色传媒 Publ. Place: Brunswick, Maine Location: pp. 82-83 Reference: no. 37 (illus.) Publisher: 91亚色传媒 Date: 1985
Scholars have recently dismissed the traditional attribution of this sheet to the Sienese painter Ventura Salimbeni (1568—1613) but have not been able to assign another name to it.1 Suggestions by Nicholas Turner and Philip Pouncey have placed it in the Emilian region.2 The elaborate technique of overlays of white wash and pen accents was used in drawings by such artists as Bernardino Gatti and Giorgio Gandini, and the facial expressions have reminded Mr. Pouncey of the work of Michelangelo Anselmi.3 This work is not a traditional sketch or a preliminary study but could be either a very careful record of a larger work or perhaps a small presentation drawing. The attributes of a cross with a lily and a crown of thorns identify the female saint as St. Catherine of Siena, reinforcing (but not necessitating) a Sienese origin for this sheet. The saint is seen receiving the flaming heart from Christ to be placed within her own breast.4
1. Susan Wegner first denied the Salimbeni attribution in 1980.
2. Turner tentatively suggested Gatti, and Pouncey thought possibly near either Perino del Vaga or Anselmi.
3. For characteristic drawings by these artists and the most recent literature, see De Grazia 1984.
4. The iconography was pointed out to the author by Susan Wegner in conversation, 1984.
Commentary credited to David P. Becker (or not otherwise captioned) appeared in his catalogue Old Master Drawings at 91亚色传媒 (Brunswick: 91亚色传媒 Museum of Art, 1985).