FJK 053

Ghirlandaio Davide (Italian, Florence 1452–1525 Florence)

Saint Blessing a Young Monk

Date unknown
8 21/32 × 9 1/16 in. (220 × 230 mm)

Medium
Pen and brown ink with traces of black pencil and white heightenings on grey-green prepared paper

Stamp hardly legible bottom left

Origin

Earl Moriz von Fries Collection (1777-1826), Vienna (Lugt 2903)
Sir Charles Greville Collection (1763-1832) (Lugt 549)
Earl of Warwick Collection, Warwick (1818-1893), by descent (Lugt 2600)
Peter W. Josten Collection
Charles Goldman Collection, New York
E. W. Thaw Collection, New York (under School of Ghirlandaio)
Jan Krugier Collection, Monaco (acquired from previous owner on February 3, 1984), JK 3843
Jan Krugier Foundation

Bibliography

Sale Catalogue, Christie’s, Manson & Woods, London, May 20, 1896, The Right Hon. The Earl of Warwick Collection, no. 208, ill. (attributed to Fra Fillipo Lippi).

Sale Catalogue, Sotheby’s & Co., London, Important Drawings, February 25, 1948, no. 87, ill. (attributed to Tuscany school, mid-fifteenth century).

BERENSON Bernard, I disegni dei pittori fiorentini, Milan: Electa, 1961, vol. II, no. 992 A-1 (under Francesco Granacci).

Erik van SCHAAK, Master Drawings in Private Collection, New York: Lambert-Spector Inv., 1962, p. 69, no. 1, ill. (attributed to Davide Ghirlandaio).

DEGENHART Bernhard, SCHMITT Annegrit, Corpus der Italienischen Zeichnungen 1300-1450, Berlin: Gebr. Mann Verlag, 1968, vol. 2, part I, no. 251, ill.; vol. 4, pl. 242c (under copy after Vecchietta).

DÜCKERS Alexander, Linie, Licht und Schatten, Meisterzeichnungen und Skulpturen der Sammlung Jan und Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, Berlin: G & H Verlag, 1999, Catalogue raisonné, p. 402, ill. (under school of Domenico Ghirlandaio).

RYLANDS Philip, The Timeless Eye. Master Drawings from the Jan and Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski Collection, Berlin: G & H Verlag, 1999, Catalogue raisonné, p. 402 ill. (under school of Domenico Ghirlandaio).

Exhibitions

New York, Wildenstein & Co. Inc., Timeless Master Drawings, November 16 – December 31, 1955, no. 25.