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Head of a Monk

Head of a Monk

Circle of: Luca Signorelli (in circa 1500-1525)

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Title Head of a Monk
Material and technique Charcoal, brush and brown wash
Object type
Drawing > Two-dimensional object > Art object
Location This object is in storage
Dimensions Height 212 mm
Width 174 mm
Artists Circle of: Luca Signorelli
Previously attributed: Lorenzo Lotto
Previously attributed: Giovanni Bellini
Maker: Anoniem
Accession number I 555 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
Inscriptions 'J. 4494 / Luca Signorelli 1441-1523' (verso, lower left, pencil), '36' en 'un autre à l'envers' (verso, centre and lower right., pen and ink), '80' en '117' (verso, lower right, pencil)
Collector Collector / Franz Koenigs
Provenance Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792, L.2364)*, London; - ; Sale Prince Vladimir Argutinsky-Dolgorukov (and others), London (Sotheby) 04.07.1923, lot 152, ill. (Luca Signorelli, £22 to Sabin); Edwin Czeczowiczka (1877-1971), Vienna; his sale, Berlin (Ball, Graupe) 12.05.1930, lot 37 (Giovanni Bellini, DM 1900 to Lugt); Frits Lugt (1884-1970, L1028), Maartensdijk; Franz W. Koenigs (1881-1941, L.1023a), Haarlem, acquired in 1931 (North Italian, c. 1500); 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, nr. 649; Parijs/Rotterdam/Haarlem 1962, no. 41
Research Show research Italian Drawings 1400-1600
Literature Amsterdam 1934, nr. 649 (attr. Signorelli); Venturi 1934, p. 496, ill. 2 (attr. Lotto); Tietze/Tietze-Conrat 1944, no. A 764 (not Lotto); Paris-Rotterdam-Haarlem 1962, no. 41, pl. 34
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Geographical origin Italy > Southern Europe > Europe

Entry catalogue Italian Drawings 1400-1600

Author: Rosie Razzall

Both sides of this sheet depict heads looking upwards. They are probably preliminary studies for a painting, but no related work has yet been identified. The head of a monk on the recto was briefly placed in the Venetian school under Giovanni Bellini (c. 1430-1519)[1] and Lorenzo Lotto (1480-1556),[2] but has otherwise carried an association with Luca Signorelli that is maintained here.

Signorelli painted various penitent or martyred saints with their eyes cast to heaven, such as a St Stephen in Perugia,[3] and a St Jerome in Paris.[4] The drawings may be loosely related to these types. A range of grizzled apostles gazing upwards also appear in The Assumption of the Virgin in Cortona[5] by Bartolommeo del Gatta (1448-1502), who worked closely with Signorelli. The drawing was probably made by a member of Signorelli’s circle familiar with a range of the artist’s work. The charcoal is subtly applied and in places enhanced with wash.

Footnotes

[1] Czeczowiczka sale, Berlin (Ball, Graupe) 12 May 1930, lot 37.

[2] Venturi 1934, p. 496, ill. 2.

[3] Palazzo Baldeschi.

[4] Musée du Louvre, inv. RF 2062.

[5] Museo Diocesano di Cortona.

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