Folio from the Gozzoli Album: Standing Male Nude in Frontal View, the Right Leg Repeated, Small Angel Holding a Bird Facing Right

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Title	Folio from the Gozzoli Album: Standing Male Nude in Frontal View, the Right Leg Repeated, Small Angel Holding a Bird Facing Right
Material and technique	Pen and brown ink
Object type	Drawing (recto) > 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 17 recto (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 IV, Prenten & Tekeningen (2009)
Research	Show research Italian Drawings 1400-1600
Material	Pen > Artist's material > Material > Material and technique Paper > Vegetable material > Organic material > Material > Material and technique Brown ink > Ink > Artist's material > Material > Material and technique
Object	Drawing (recto) > Drawing > Two-dimensional object > Art object
Geographical origin	Italy > Southern Europe > Europe

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 47 recto in the hypothetical lost volume (now also a recto in the album). The finger smudges in the lower right corner confirm that this was originally a recto page. Long before the present album was constructed, the sheet was torn in halves, which was then provisionally repaired by attaching paper strips on both sides.

The standing male nude is probably Hercules. The figure of a walking child holding a bird at lower left is related to an autograph drawing of a putto by Gozzoli now in Dresden and is also found on folio 19 recto in the Gozzoli Album.^[1]

Footnotes

^[1]Kupferstich-Kabinett, inv. C 6; Degenhart/Schmitt 1968, no. 399, pl. 314a; Montefalco 2002, p. 118, fig. 2.

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