FJK 063
Garofalo (Benvenuto Tisi da Garofalo) (Italian, Ferrara 1481–1559 Ferrara)
Bishop Seated on a Throne with Two Standing Figures
ca. 1545-1550
7 11/64 × 4 41/64 in. (182 × 118 mm)
Medium
Pen, brown ink, brown wash and charcoal on paper
Stamp from collection A. Grahl bottom right (Lugt 1199)
Origin
August Grahl Collection, Dresden (1791-1868)
Benno Geiger Collection
His sale, Sotheby’s, London, December 7-10, 1920, no. 127
Bargellesi Collection, Genoa
Alistair Matthews Collection, Bournemouth (1972)
Private Collection
Sale, Christie’s, New York, January 22, 2004, no. 15
Jan Krugier Collection, Monaco, JK 6206
Jan Krugier Foundation
Bibliography
NEPPI Alberto, “Un disegno inedito del Garofalo,” in Pantheon, Sept.-Oct. 1966, pp. 320-321.
VARESE Ranieri, Cultura figurativa ferrarese tra XV e XVI secolo, Venice, 1981, p. 92.
FIORAVANTI BARALDI A.-M., Il Garofalo, Rimini: Luisé Editore, 1993, p. 269, no. D3.
Notes
Very close in handling to a pen drawing of the Adoration of the Magi, in a private collection, which is a study for a picture dated 1549 in the Pinacoteeca Nazionle in Ferrara (A.M. Fioravanti Baraldi, op. cit., nos. 19 [drawing] and 189 [painting]). Also close in morphology, with egg-shaped heads delineated by a sequence of lines and features defined with dots, are drawings in the British Museum (A.M. Fioravanti Baraldi, op. cit., no 18) and in the Janos Scholz Collection at the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York (P. Pouncey “Drawings by Garofalo”, The Burlington Magazine, XCVII, 1955, pp. 196-202, fig. 15).
Christie’s, Old Master and 19th Century Drawings, London January 2004
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