A Putto

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Title	A Putto
Material and technique	Red chalk, heightened with white, on blue paper
Object type	Drawing > Two-dimensional object > Art object
Location	This object is in storage

Dimensions	Height 130 mm Width 215 mm
Artists	Draughtsman: Anoniem
Accession number	DN 127/24 (PK)
Credits	Gift Dr A.J. Domela Nieuwenhuis, 1923
Department	Drawings & Prints
Acquisition date	1923
Creation date	in circa 1550-1650
Watermark	none
Inscriptions	none
Collector	Collector / Adriaan Domela Nieuwenhuis
Provenance	Dr. Adriaan J. Domela Nieuwenhuis (1850-1935, L.356b), Munich/Rotterdam, donated with his collection in 1923 (Anonymous Italian)
Research	Show research Italian Drawings 1400-1600
Material	Red chalk > Chalk > Artist's material > Material > Material and technique Blue paper > Coloured paper > Paper > Vegetable material > Organic material > Material > Material and technique
Object	Drawing > Two-dimensional object > Art object
Technique	Highlight > Painting technique > Technique > Material and technique
Geographical origin	Italy > Southern Europe > Europe

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Entry catalogue Italian Drawings 1400-1600

Author: Klazina Botke

This is a drawing from the collection of Adriaan Domela Nieuwenhuis, who donated his large holdings of prints and some 400 drawings to the museum in 1923. They include 56 Italian works, 32 of them from the period 1400-1600. In his inventory book this one was listed as ‘old Italian’.^[1]The study is of a putto by an unidentified artist and drawn with red chalk and white heightening on blue paper. It may come from the same workshop as a similar drawing in black chalk DN 126/23, and is vaguely reminiscent of the work of Francesco Curradi (1570-1661).^[2]This artist had a preference for chalk combined with white heightening on blue paper, but the figures in his studies are usually sharper and drawn with greater clarity.

Footnotes

^[1]'Akt van een knaap in torschende houding - oud italiaansch; roodkrijt; meester onbekend' (Naked little lad in a twisted pose - old Italian; red chalk; unknown master).

^[2]See, for example, Rome, Istituto Centrale per la Grafica, inv. D-FC128590r.

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