Folio from the Gozzoli Album: Eagle's Head and a Camel, Both in Profile

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Title	Folio from the Gozzoli Album: Eagle's Head and a Camel, Both in Profile
Material and technique	Pen and brush and brown ink, brown wash
Object type	Drawing (verso) > Drawing > Two-dimensional object > Art object
Location	This object is in storage

Dimensions	Height 229 mm Width 160 mm
Artists	Workshop of: Benozzo Gozzoli
Accession number	I 562 14 verso (PK)
Credits	Loan Stichting Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (former Koenigs collection), 1940
Department	Drawings & Prints
Acquisition date	1940
Creation date	in circa 1450-1460
Collector	Collector / Franz Koenigs
Provenance	Biblioteca Trivulziana, Milan, Codex Triv. 2145; probably acquired by Don Carlo Trivulzio (1715-1789); by inheritance to Luigi Alberico Principe di Musocco Trivulzio (1873-1938); Franz W. Koenigs (1881-1941, L.1023a), Haarlem, acquired in the years 1925-1930; D.G. van Beuningen (1877-1955), Rotterdam, acquired with the Koenigs Collection in 1940 and donated to Stichting Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
Internal exhibitions	De Collectie Twee - wissel II, Prenten & Tekeningen (2009)
Research	Show research Italian Drawings 1400-1600
Material	Brown ink > Ink > Artist's material > Material > Material and technique Paper > Vegetable material > Organic material > Material > Material and technique Paintbrush > Artist's material > Material > Material and technique Pen > Artist's material > Material > Material and technique
Object	Drawing (verso) > Drawing > Two-dimensional object > Art object
Technique	Washing > Wash > Drawing technique > Technique > Material and technique Washing > Wash > Drawing technique > Technique > Material and technique

Entry catalogue Italian Drawings 1400-1600

Author: Albert Elen

This is a folio from a hypothetical lost drawing book, a remnant of which is now part of an eighteenth-century album called the Gozzoli Album, held in Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. For a general description, see here.

This page was originally folio 44 recto in the hypothetical lost volume (now a verso in the album).

The eagle’s head goes back to models by Pisanello (1395-1455), such as one in the Codex Vallardi, now in Paris.^[1]The camel (not a dromedary) is related to the two camels in the long retinue of the Magi depicted in the landscape background of Gozzoli’s fresco The Journey of the Magi on the west wall of the Cappella dei Magi in Palazzo Medici, Florence.^[2]The motif is also found in the tondo with The Adoration of the Magi by Domenico Veneziano (1410-1461), now in Berlin, which was probably also painted for Piero di Cosimo de’ Medici (1416-1469), but earlier around 1440-43, and may have been an easily accessible source of inspiration for Gozzoli and his pupils.^[3]

Footnotes

[1] Musée du Louvre, inv. 2503 recto.

[2] Montefalco 2002, p. 112, ill.; Florence 2021, p. 65, fig. 9.

[3] Staatliche Museen, Gemäldegalerie, inv. 95A; Ames-Lewis 1998, p. 27.

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