Folio from the Gozzoli Album: Two Mourning Figures from a Crucifixion, a Kneeling Woman and a Standing Man. Below is a Kneeling Monk, His Head Repeated

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Title	Folio from the Gozzoli Album: Two Mourning Figures from a Crucifixion, a Kneeling Woman and a Standing Man. Below is a Kneeling Monk, His Head Repeated
Material and technique	Silverpoint, pen and brush and brown ink, heightened with white
Object type	Drawing (recto) > Drawing > Two-dimensional object > Art object
Location	This object is in storage

Dimensions	Width 160 mm Height 229 mm
Artists	Workshop of: Benozzo Gozzoli
Accession number	I 562 5 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
Research	Show research Italian Drawings 1400-1600
Material	Brown ink > Ink > Artist's material > Material > Material and technique Pen > Artist's material > Material > Material and technique Paintbrush > Artist's material > Material > Material and technique Silverpoint > Metalpoint > Artist's material > Material > Material and technique
Object	Drawing (recto) > Drawing > Two-dimensional object > Art object
Technique	Prepare > Prepared > Shaping techniques > General technique > Technique > Material and technique Prepare > Prepared > Shaping techniques > General technique > Technique > Material and technique Highlight > Painting technique > Technique > Material and technique
Geographical origin	Italy > Southern Europe > Europe

Entry catalogue Italian Drawings 1400-1600

Author: Albert Elen

Benozzo Gozzoli, 'The Blessing of Montefalco', 1450-52, fresco, Montefalco, San Francesco. Photo Web Gallery of Art

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 53 verso in the hypothetical lost volume (now a recto in the album).

The pose of the kneeling monk in prayer slightly resembles the three kneeling monks in the fresco The Blessing of Montefalco in Gozzoli’s cycle in the apsidal chapel of the church of San Francesco in Montefalco (scene 7, south wall, 1450-52) (fig.).

Berenson (1938 and 19661) is the only scholar who considered this drawing (and also folios 6 verso and 8 verso) to be autograph. He identified the kneeling monk as St Francis.

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