Medium:Brush and brown wash, over black chalk, on blue paper
Dimensions:15 13/16 x 11in. (40.1 x 28cm)
Classification:Drawings
Credit Line:Rogers Fund, 1962
Object Number:62.119.9
Inscription: Annotated in pen and brown ink at lower left in the artist's hand, p. far pilore cotra la peste ... (a recipe for pills against the plague supplied to Farinati by "Zuane Copino"); and in another hand at lower center, P: Farinat.
William Roscoe (British)(according to an annotation on the old mount); Studley Martin (British), Liverpool; Studley Martin (British), sale Liverpool, January 29, 1889, no. 396.; O'ByrneCollection (according to Christie's); O'Byrne sale, Christie's, London, May 1, 1962, no. 70, repr.
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. "Venetian Drawings from American Collections," September 29, 1974–November 24, 1974.
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth. "Venetian Drawings from American Collections," December 7, 1974–February 9, 1975.
Saint Louis Art Museum. "Venetian Drawings from American Collections," February 6, 1975–April 6, 1975.
"Advertisement for auction at Christie's, London." Burlington Magazine. vol. 114, April 1962, p. v, ill.
"International Saleroom." in The Connoisseur. vol. 150, 1962, cat. no. 605, p. 204, ill.
Jacob Bean "Form and Function in Italian Drawings: Observations on Several New Acquisitions." in The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, vol. 21, no. 7, New York, March 1963, fig. no. pl. 7, p. 235, ill.
Jacob Bean 100 European Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: New York Graphic Society, 1964, cat. no. 23, fig. no. 23, ill.
Lionello Puppi Paolo Farinati. Giornale (1573-1666). Florence, 1968, 59, ill.
Terisio Pignatti Venetian Drawings from American Collections. A Loan Exhibition. Exh. cat., The National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., Kimbell Art Museum, Forth Worth, and Saint Louis Art Museum. Washington, D. C., 1974-75, p. 18, no. 26, ill.
Venetian Drawings From American Collections. Exh. cat.; Washington, D.C., The National Gallery of Art; Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum; St. Louis, The St. Louis Art Museum. National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., Kimbell Art Museum, Saint Louis Art Museum, Washington, D.C., 1974, cat. no. no. 26, fig. no. pl. 18, pl. 26, p. 18, 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, cat. no. 255, fig. no. 255, p. 251, ill.
Xanthe Brooke Mantegna to Rubens: The Weld-Blundell Drawing Collection Exh. cat., Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool and British Museum, London. London, 1998, p. 149.
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