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Studies of an Altar and a Head

Studies of an Altar and a Head

Correggio (Antonio Allegri) (in circa 1522-1523)

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Title Studies of an Altar and a Head
Material and technique Squared, brown wash, red chalk, heightened with white, on rose paper
Object type
Drawing > Two-dimensional object > Art object
Location This object is in storage
Dimensions Height 67 mm
Width 121 mm
Artists Draughtsman: Correggio (Antonio Allegri)
Accession number I 288 verso (PK)
Credits Loan Stichting Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (former Koenigs collection), 1940
Department Drawings & Prints
Acquisition date 1940
Creation date in circa 1522-1523
Watermark none (vH, ?P)
Inscriptions 'Cor.' (below centre, on removed mount, pen and brown ink)
Collector Collector / Franz Koenigs
Mark P. Lely (L.2092, damaged, top left), W. Bateson (L.2604a on removed mount), F.W. Koenigs (L.1023a on removed mount)
Provenance Sir Peter Lely (1618-1680, L.2092)****, London; The Earls of Pembroke & Montgomery, their sale, London (Sotheby's) 09.07.1917, lot 410; Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), London/Florence; William Bateson (1861-1926, L.2604a), London; his sale, London (Sotheby) 23.04.1929, lot 33b (BP 50 to Cassirer, together with I 289 in lot 33a); Franz W. Koenigs (1881-1941, L.1023a), Haarlem, acquired in 1929; D.G. van Beuningen (1877-1955), Rotterdam, acquired with the Koenigs Collection in 1940 and donated to Stichting Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
Exhibitions Amsterdam 1934, no. 532; Parijs/Rotterdam/Haarlem 1962, no. 101A; Parma 2008, no IV.19a; Rotterdam 2009-2010 (coll 2 kw 5)
Internal exhibitions Italiaanse tekeningen in Nederlands bezit (1962)
Research Show research Italian Drawings 1400-1600
Literature Strong 1900, vol. IV, no. 36; Venturi 1902, pp. 355-57; Sturge Moore 1906, p. 263, no. 9; Vasari Society 1920-35, vol. II-1, no. 5; Ricci 1930, pp. 182-83 (Rondani); Popham 1957, pp. 49, 156, no. 35; Ghidiglia Quintavalle 1962, p. 31; Ghidiglia Quintavalle 1965, p. 193; Paris/Rotterdam/Haarlem 1962, no. 101A, pl. 74; Toscano 1974, p. 162; Gould 1976, pp. 62, 74-5, 251, 255, pl. 64C, 76B; Ercoli 1982, p. 134; De Grazia in Washington/Parma 1984, p. 98, no. 12; Di Giampaolo/Muzzi 1988, no. 44, ill.; Fadda 2012, pp. 513-14, fig. 13; Vaccaro 2017, pp. 186, 190, fig. 101, 103; Vaccaro 2018, pp. 393-94, fig. 25
Material
Object
Technique
Highlight > Painting technique > Technique > Material and technique
Brown wash > Washing > Wash > Drawing technique > Technique > Material and technique
Squared > Squaring > Drawing technique > Technique > Material and technique
Squared > Squaring > Drawing technique > Technique > Material and technique
Geographical origin Italy > Southern Europe > Europe

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Entry catalogue Italian Drawings 1400-1600

This drawing is the verso of I 288. For the catalogue entry on this sheet, see the recto record for the drawing.

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Correggio (Antonio Allegri)

Correggio circa 1489 - Correggio 1534

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