Study for a Male Figure Lowered into a Grave (recto); Kneeling Female Figure in Profile to Left (verso)

Cigoli (Ludovico Cardi)  (Italian, Castello di Cigoli 1559–1613 Rome)

Date:
1559–1613
Medium:
Point of brush, blue wash, highlighted with white, over black chalk, on blue paper
Dimensions:
9-13/16 x 15-3/8 in. (24.9 x 39.1 cm)
Classification:
Drawings
Credit Line:
Harry G. Sperling Fund, 1981
Accession Number:
1981.128
  • Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

    Inscription: Annotated in pen and brown ink at upper border, vignali; in pen and black ink at lower border of the Ottley mount, Jacopo Vignali Pittore, (recto), and Jacopo Vignali. (verso).

  • Provenance

    William Young Ottley (British, Thatcham, Berkshire 1771–1836 London)- on an Ottley mount, see Lugt Supp. 2662; Thomas Philipe (British, 1740–1816), London, June 6–23, 1814, lot 1409 as Jacopo Vignali; Sir Thomas Lawrence (British, Bristol 1769–1830 London); Hans M. Calmann ; Christie's, London, April 7, 1981, lot 49

  • References

    Jacob Bean "The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Annual Report 1981-1982". The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1982, p. 22, ill.

    Jacob Bean, Lawrence Turcic 15th and 16th Century Italian Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1982, cat. no. 50, fig. no. 50, pp. 62-63, ill.

    Giulia Brunetti, Marco Chiarini, Maria Sframeli Disegni e incisioni della raccolta Marucelli. Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence, Italy, 1983, cat. no. 33.

    Miles Chappell "Lodovico Cigoli's Lost 'Burial of Saint Paul': Newly Discovered Drawings" Master Drawings. 22, 3. 1984, cat. no. 16, fig. no. 7, 8, pp. 291, 294, ill.

    William M. Griswold, Linda Wolk-Simon Sixteenth Century Italian Drawings in New York Collections Exh. cat., New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, January 11 - March 27, 1994. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1994, cat. no. 38, fig. no. p.179, pp. 44-45, ill.



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