Folio from the Gozzoli Album: Female Head in Profile Facing Right, Male Head in ProfileFacing Left, Mourning Man Standing, Facing Left (St John in a Crucifixion)

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Title	Folio from the Gozzoli Album: Female Head in Profile Facing Right, Male Head in ProfileFacing Left, Mourning Man Standing, Facing Left (St John in a Crucifixion)
Material and technique	Silverpoint, pen and brown ink, heightened with white, on green prepared paper
Object type	Drawing (verso) > 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 7 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
Research	Show research Italian Drawings 1400-1600
Material	Paper > Vegetable material > Organic material > Material > Material and technique Brown ink > Ink > Artist's material > Material > Material and technique Pen > Artist's material > Material > Material and technique Silverpoint > Metalpoint > Artist's material > Material > Material and technique
Object	Drawing (verso) > 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

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Entry catalogue Italian Drawings 1400-1600

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 33 verso in the hypothetical lost volume (now also a verso in the album).

The mourning figure with his right hand held to his cheek is probably related to a St John the Baptist in a Crucifixion. Much the same figure appears in a drawing, also from the Gozzoli workshop, now in Berlin.^[1]