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Title:Saint Mark
Artist:Domenico Beccafumi (Italian, Cortine in Valdibiana Montaperti 1484–1551 Siena)
Date:1538
Medium:Brush with brown, beige, and cream-colored tempera and emulsion, on paper.
Dimensions:15 3/4 x 9 3/16in. (40 x 23.3cm)
Classification:Drawings
Credit Line:Gift of Jean Douglas Fowles, in memory of R. Langton Douglas, 1975
Accession Number:1975.97
Henry Scipio Reitlinger (British); Sotheby's, London- Reitlinger sale, December 9, 1953, no. 24; Mrs. Edward Fowles (Jean Douglas Fowles)
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Italian Renaissance Drawings from New York Collections," November 9, 1965–January 9, 1966.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Drawings Recently Acquired, 1972–75," October 1, 1975–January 4, 1976.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "15th and 16th Century Italian Drawings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art," February 16–April 17, 1983.
Pinacoteca Nazionale, Siena. "Domenico Beccafumi e il suo tempo," June 16, 1990–September 16, 1990.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Sixteenth Century Italian Drawings in New York Collections," January 11–March 27, 1994.
Donato Sanminiatelli "Sketches of Domenico Beccafumi." The Burlington Magazine. vol. 47, London, 1955, p. 35, note 5, fig. 10 (as Domenico Beccafumi).
Anna Forlani Tempesti I disegni italiani del Cinquecento, scuole fiorentina, senese, romana, umbro marchigiana e dell'Italia meridionale. Venice, Italy, 1962, p. 194, no. 52.
Jacob Bean, Felice Stampfle Drawings from New York Collections, Vol. I: The Italian Renaissance. Exh. cat. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1965, p. 47, no. 63, ill.
Donato Sanminiatelli Domenico Beccafumi. Milan, Italy, 1967, p. 129, no. 26, ill.
Jacob Bean European Drawings Recently Acquired, 1972–1975. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1975.
Edi Baccheschi with an introduction by Giuliano Briganti L'opera completa del Beccafumi. Milan, Italy, 1977, pp. 104-105, no. 127, ill.
Jacob Bean, Lawrence Turčić 15th and 16th Century Italian Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1982, pp. 44-45, no. 30.
Domenico Beccafumi e Il suo tempo. Exh. cat., Pinacoteca Nazionale and elsew., Siena (June 16- September 16, 1990). Edited by Fiorella Sricchia Santoro, Paola Barocchi, Milan, 1990, p. 463, no. 129, repr. (entry by Andrea De Marchi).
William M. Griswold, Linda Wolk-Simon Sixteenth Century Italian Drawings in New York Collections. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art (January 11 - March 27, 1994). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1994, pp. 106-07, no. 94 (entry by Linda Wolk-Simon).
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