FJK 022
Carpaccio Vittore (Italian, Venice 1460/66?–1525/26 Venice)
Seated Woman in Profile
ca 1505-1507
5 9/32 × 4 19/64 in. (134 × 109 mm)
Medium
Grey ink, brush and grey ink wash with white highlights on blue grey prepared paper
Inscription on card-board support: S.V. n° 8 (Scuola Veneta)
Certificate
Certificate from Mr. Nicholas Turner, dated February 24, 2000, sent to Mr. Nicolas Schwed, Christie’s Old Master Drawings Dept., New York
Certificate from Prof. W. R. Rearick dated April 1, 2000, Venice
Origin
Album Sagredo-Borghese (Lugt 2103a)
Private Collection, Lyon (?)
Sale, Christie’s, New York, January 28, 2000, no. 5
Jan Krugier Collection, Monaco, JK 5773
Jan Krugier Foundation
Exhibitions
Paris, Musée Jacquemart-André, La Passion du dessin. Collection Jan et Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, 2002, pp. 48-49, no. 13, color ill. p. 49.
Munich, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Das Ewige Auge - Von Rembrandt bis Picasso. Meisterwerke aus der Sammlung Jan Krugier und Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, 2007, p. 58, no. 21, color ill. p. 59.
Notes
[…] It is a life study done in preparation for the elderly woman seated at lower right in Carpaccio’s Saint Stephen Ordained by Saint Peter (Berlin, Staatliche Museen, Gemäldegalerie). This was the first in the cycle of murals done for the Scuola di Santo Stefano in Venice, a canvas dated to 1511. The motive is developed from that of he nurse in the Reception of the English Ambassadors (Venice, Gallerie dell’Accademia) from the Saint Ursula cycle of more than a decade before. That it is a preparation for the Berlin composition is suggested by the fact that parts of the figure in the painting would be covered by the child in the foreground. Although Carpaccio’s approach to drawing was formed in Giovanni Bellini’s studio just before 1489, this type of chiaroscuro study reflects his interest in the drawings done by Dürer during his Venetian sojourn of 1505-1507. […]
Letter by W. R. Rearick, April 1, 2000
Request for information/loan
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