FJK 095
Perugino (Pietro di Cristoforo Vannucci) (Italian, Città della Pieve, active by 1469–died 1523 Fontignano)
Apostle Seen from Behind
ca. 1500-1510
9 17/32 × 4 9/64 in. (242 × 105 mm)
Medium
Black chalk, pen and brown ink on watermark paper, outlines stylus-incised for transfer, reverse rubbed with black chalk
Anonymous inscription bottom right: Perugino
Collector’s mark “A. Donnadieu” bottom left (Lugt 726)
Collector’s mark “H. Teding van Berkhout” bottom left (Lugt 2421)
Origin
Anonymous 18th-century Florentine collector
Alcide Donnadieu Collection (around 1791-1861), London
Jonkheer H. Teding van Berkhout Collection (1830-1904), Haarlem
Gallery Fischer, Lucerne, June 20, 1958, no 553
Dr. Martin Bodmer Collection, Geneva
Sale, Christie’s, New York, Master Drawings from the Martin Bodmer Foundation, January 23, 2002, no. 140
Jan Krugier Collection, Monaco, JK 6002
Jan Krugier Foundation
Exhibitions
Paris, Musée Jacquemart-André, La Passion du dessin. Collection Jan et Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, 2002, Addendum, no. 3, color ill.
Notes
A study for an apostle in the lower left corner of the Ascension painted for the High Altar in the Cathedral at San Sepolcro, datable to the first decade of the 16th Century, P. Scarpellini, Perugino, Milan, 1984, no 153, fig. 249.
Christie’s, Master Drawings From The Martin Bodmer Foundation, New York January 2002 (extract from)
Request for information/loan
The Jan Krugier Foundation is devoted to increasing the impact of the collection of drawings through regular loans to major exhibitions. Loan applications should include a complete presentation of the project.