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Perugino (Pietro di Cristoforo Vannucci)  (Italian, Città della Pieve, active by 1469–died 1523 Fontignano)

Date:
1489–90
Medium:
Brush and brown wash, highlighted with white gouache, on gray-green prepared paper (recto); pen and brown ink (verso)
Dimensions:
8 x 11-1/16 in. (20.4 x 28 cm.)
Classification:
Drawings
Credit Line:
Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 1993
Accession Number:
1993.327

This artwork is not on display

  • Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

    Inscription: Annotated in pen and brown ink, at lower right corner, "CL", possibly referring to Claude Lorrain.

  • Provenance

    Herbert List (German, Hamburg 1903–1975 Munich); Wolfgang Ratjen, Munich and Vaduz (German, 1943–1997); Christie's, Londonsale, 12/15/1992, lot 47; Gabrielle Kopelman (American)

  • References

    "The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin" Recent Acquisition: A Selection: 1993-1994. no. 2, 52, Fall 1994, p. 21, ill.

    George R. Goldner "New Drawings by Perugino and Pontormo" Burlington Magazine. 136, 1994, fig. no. 28, 30, pp. 365-366, ill.

    "The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Annual Report 1993-1994". The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1994, p. 27.

    Joseph Antenucci Becherer Pietro Perugino Master of the Italian Renaissance. Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1997, pp. 69, 79, 192, 193, 206, cat. no. 14, pp. 192-195, ill.

    Perugino il divin pittore. Edited by Dr. Vittoria Garibaldi, Edited by Francesco Federico Mancini, Milan, 2004, cat. no. II.25, p. 375, ill.

    Linda Wolk-Simon "Raphael at the Metropolitan: The Colonna Altarpiece". The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2006, p. 71, ill.



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