Folio from the Gozzoli Album: Two Seated Men, The One on the Right Holding Up an Open Book, an Ox Fed by a Child

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Title	Folio from the Gozzoli Album: Two Seated Men, The One on the Right Holding Up an Open Book, an Ox Fed by a Child
Material and technique	Silverpoint, pen and brush and brown ink, brown wash
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 9 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	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 Brown ink > Ink > 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
Geographical origin	Italy > Southern Europe > Europe

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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 45 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.

Similar drawings of seated men (saints, possibly apostles), also from the workshop of Gozzoli (but by different hands) and arranged in a model book mise-en-pages, are found on the versos of sheets now in Windsor^[1]and London,^[2]the former with four figures two by two, the latter with two figures above and a (head of an) ox below.

Footnotes

^[1]Royal Collection, inv. 912811 verso; Degenhart/Schmitt 1968, no. 401, pl. 315b; Ames-Lewis/Wright 1983, pp. 288, 290, no. 64 verso, ill.; Montefalco 2002, pp. 196-97, no. 17, ill.

^[2]British Museum, inv. Pp,1.7 verso; Ames-Lewis/Wright 1983, pp. 288, 290, fig. 64b.

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