Pilgrim with Staff and Hat

Attributed to: Marcantonio Raimondi (in circa 1500-1525)

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Title	Pilgrim with Staff and Hat
Material and technique	Pen and brown ink
Object type	Drawing > Two-dimensional object > Art object
Location	This object is in storage

Dimensions	Height 187 mm Width 102 mm
Artists	Attributed to: Marcantonio Raimondi Previously attributed: Marco Basaiti
Accession number	I 283 recto (PK)
Credits	Loan Stichting Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (former Koenigs collection), 1940
Department	Drawings & Prints
Acquisition date	1940
Creation date	in circa 1500-1525
Watermark	none (vV, 8P)
Inscriptions	'303' (verso, below right, pen and blue ink), 'n 672' (verso, above right, pencil)
Collector	Collector / Franz Koenigs
Provenance	Art dealer Jacques Rosenthal, Munich (Basaiti); Franz W. Koenigs (1881-1941, L.1023a), Haarlem, acquired in 1928 (North-Italian, late 15th century); 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
Literature	Faietti 1994, p. 210, fig. 11 (attrib. Raimondi)
Material	Brown ink > Ink > Artist's material > Material > Material and technique Pen > Artist's material > Material > Material and technique Paper > Vegetable material > Organic material > Material > Material and technique
Object	Drawing > Two-dimensional object > Art object
Geographical origin	Italy > Southern Europe > Europe

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Entry catalogue Italian Drawings 1400-1600

Author: Klazina Botke

The key features of this study of a pilgrim are the delicately executed shadows built up with slender, close-packed hatching and the flowing draperies. At one time it was thought to be by Marco Basaiti (c.1470-1530), until it was convincingly reattributed by Marzia Faietti (1994) to the Bolognese artist Marcatonio Raimondi.^[1] There are several studies on the verso. On the lower half there is a male figure with a winged head (Mercury perhaps?). Above that are the figure’s wings and raised left arm, as well as the bottom half of a horse’s head. The style of these studies recalls other small sketches by Marcantonio of the kind to be found on a sheet in Berlin.^[2]

There is an important group of pen-and-ink drawings by Marcantonio, including several sheets that probably came from a drawing book.^[3]Like the Rotterdam sheet and one in New York, these works usually have a worked-up scene on the recto and smaller studies on the verso.^[4]

Footnotes

^[1]Remark on the invoice from Jacques Rosenthal, 7 January 1928: ‘zeer wrsch. Basaiti. Stehender Pilger'; Faietti 1994, p. 210.

^[2]Where there is also a horse’s head. Faietti 1994, p. 210, n. 43; Staatliche Museen, Kupferstichkabinett, inv. KdZ 2368.

^[3]Some of the sheets from the book were auctioned in 1988: London (Christie’s) 5 June 1988. Most of them came from the former collection of Carlo Prayer (1826-1900). For similar works see also Oberhuber 1988, pp. 51-88.

^[4]Morgan Library & Museum, inv. I, 93c.

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