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Warriors Fighting over the Corpse of an Amazon, and Two Seated Amazons

Warriors Fighting over the Corpse of an Amazon, and Two Seated Amazons

Pisanello (Antonio di Puccio Pisano) (in circa 1431-1432)

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Title Warriors Fighting over the Corpse of an Amazon, and Two Seated Amazons
Material and technique Pen and ink and wash, on parchment
Object type
Drawing > Two-dimensional object > Art object
Location This object is in storage
Dimensions Height 223 mm
Width 267 mm
Artists Workshop of: Pisanello (Antonio di Puccio Pisano)
Accession number I 520 verso (PK)
Credits Loan Stichting Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (former Koenigs collection), 1940
Department Drawings & Prints
Acquisition date 1940
Creation date in circa 1431-1432
Inscriptions 'Simonum Memmius Senens[iu]m' (below right, pen and brown ink), '1' en '1' (verso, below right, pencil)
Collector Collector / Franz Koenigs
Provenance Count Moriz von Fries (1777-1826, L.2903), Vienna, until c. 1820, to mr. W. Mellish, London; Marquis de Lagoy (1764-1829, L.1710)***, Aix-en-Provence; - ; #Art dealer Colnaghi, London; Franz W. Koenigs (1881-1941, L.1023a), Haarlem, acquired in 1930 (Sienese School, 14th century, corrected to Pisanello); D.G. van Beuningen (1877-1955), Rotterdam, acquired with the Koenigs Collection in 1940 and donated to Stichting Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
Exhibitions Paris 1932, no. 90; Amsterdam 1934, no. 611; Paris 1935, no. 646; Paris 1952, no. 1; Rotterdam 1952, no. 76; Rotterdam 1957, no. 33; Paris/Rotterdam/Haarlem 1962, no. 8; Venice/Florence 1985, no. 7; Rome 1988, no. 45 (verso); Rotterdam/New York 1990, no. 53; Moskow 1995-1996, no. 22; Paris/Verona 1996, no. 41; Rotterdam 2009 (coll 2 kw 1); Los Angeles 2018, no. 62
Internal exhibitions De Collectie Twee - wissel VI, Prenten & Tekeningen (2010)
Research Show research Italian Drawings 1400-1600
Literature Schendel 1934, p. 243, ill.; Venturi 1934, p. 494; Paris 1935, no. 646; Degenhart 1941, pp. 24, 27, 50, 65, fig. 26; Degenhart 1945, pp. 21-22, 30, 49, 72, fig. 26; Arslan 1948, p. 288, n. 2; Degenhart 1949, p. 16, fig. 11; Deusch 1943, pp. 12, 42, ill. 2; Paris 1952, no. 1, pl. 1; Cain/Vallery-Radot 1952, ill.; Haverkamp Begemann 1952, no. 76; Dell’Acqua 1952, p. 10, pl. 2; Haverkamp Begemann 1957, no. 33, ill.; Verona 1958, under no. 95; Coletti 1958, pl. 6; Chiarelli 1958, pp. 29-30; Rosenberg 1959, p. 7, pl. 14; Bean 1960, under no. 223; Degenhart/Schmitt 1960, p. 75 fig. 24, pp. 112, 116-117 fig. 86, 120-21 n. 5, 129 n. 20, pl. 86-88; Schuler/Hänsler 1962, pp. 34-35; Sindona 1962, pp. 60, 129, ill. 13; Paris/Rotterdam/Haarlem 1962, no. 8, pl. 9; Fossi Todorow 1962, pp. 135, 138 139, ill. 2; Vienna 1962, p. 267 under no. 279; Degenhart 1963, pl. 332; Edschmid 1963, p. 149, ill.; Fossi Todorow 1966, pp. 19, 20, 47, 57-8, no. 2 (recto), p. 137, no. 202 (verso) pl. 2; Magagnato 1966, pp. 292, 294-95; Byam Shaw 1967, p. 45, ill. 2; Degenhart/Schmitt 1968, vol. I-2, p. 641 (Pisanello); Baxandall 1972, p. 78; Chiarelli/Dell'Acqua 1972, no. 15, pl. 5; Anzelewsky 1972, p. 251, no. 157; Paccagnini 1973, p. 148, ill. 105; Byam Shaw 1978, no. 7, ill.; Meder/Ames 1978, vol. 1, p. 303, vol. 2, p. 15, ill. 12; Panczenko 1980, p. 21, fig. 19; Maiskaia 1981, p. 92, fig. 42; Pignatti 1981a, pp. 72-73; Christiansen 1982, p. 148; Panczenko 1983, pp. 54, 59, fig. 53; Aikema/Meijer 1985, no. 7, ill.; Ruggeri 1985, p. 235; Byam Shaw 1985, p. 832; Himmelmann 1985, p. 25, n. 40, ill. 39; Bober/Rubenstein 1986, p. 179 under no. 142; Macioce 1989, p. 39; Rome 1988, no. 45, ill. (verso); Degenhart/Schmitt 1990, vol. II-6, p. 477, n. 9 (Pisanello); Luijten/Meij 1990, no. 53, ill., fig. d; De Marchi 1992, p. 203, 215, n. 109; De Marchi 1992a, p. 11; Bernstein 1992, pp. 49-50; Ter Molen 1993, pp. 86-87, ill.; Degenhart/Schmitt/Eberhardt et al. 1995, pp. 79, 96, 104, 108, 113, 280 n. 37, fig. 113; Elen 1995, under no. 15; Cordellier 1995, p. 114 (recto); Moscow 1995-1996, no. 22, ill., pl. on p. 39; Ventura 1996, pp. 16-17, ill.; Filippi 1996, pp. 205-09, ill.; Paris/Verona 1996, no. 41; London 2001, pp. 198-199, 201-202, fig. 5.8; Degenhart/Schmitt 2004, vol III-2, pp. 149, 151-53, 156, 163, 214, 231 fig. 166e, 234, 236, 238-40, 266, 268-70, 335, 386-7, fig. 303b, 471-80, 489, no. 764 and under no. 746, pl. 76, 77, fig. 364, 367 369 (workshop Pisanello); Hiller von Gaertringen 2008, p. 196; London/Florence 2010, pp. 62-63, ill. 45; Bohn 2012, pp. 42, 67 n. 75; Cadogan 2012, pp. 201-02; Korbacher 2012, p. 79, 84; Los Angeles 2018, no. 62, ill.
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Geographical origin Italy > Southern Europe > Europe

Entry catalogue Italian Drawings 1400-1600

This drawing is the verso of I 520. For the catalogue entry on this sheet, see the recto record for the drawing.

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Pisanello (Antonio di Puccio Pisano)

Pisa circa 1395 - Rome 1455

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