FJK 007

Beccafumi (Domenico di Pace) (Italian, Cortine in Valdibiana Montaperti 1484–1551 Siena)

View of Pisa with a Theater Stage in the Background

ca. 1536 (?)
7 21/64 × 15 9/32 in. (186 × 388 mm)

Medium
Pen, brown ink, brown wash and touches of red, pink and blue wash on paper

Inscription in pen bottom left: perino del vaga
Numbered bottom right: 85

Origin

Sir John Wyndham Pope-Hennessy Collection (1913-1994), London-Florence
Sale, Christie’s, New York, January 10, 1996, no. 14
Jan Krugier Collection, Monaco, JK 5352
Jan Krugier Foundation

Bibliography

POPE-HENNESSY J., “Some Aspects of the Cinquecento in Siena,” in Art in America, 1943, XXXI, pp. 69-70, fig. 3.

SANMINIATELLI Donato, Domenico Beccafumi, Milan: Bramante Editrice, 1967, p. 153, no. 73.

MONBEIG-GOGUEL Catherine, Il manierismo fiorentino, Milan: Fratelli Fabbri Editori, 1971, p. 82, pl. X.

EISLER C., The Seeing Hand, New York, 1975, p. 53 ill.

ZORZI L., Il teatro e la città. Saggi sulla scena italiana, Turin, 1977, p. 54, note 72, pp. 194-5, note 99.

GORDLEY B.P., The Drawings of Beccafumi, Ann Arbor, 1989, no. 74, fig. 162.

POPE-HENNESSY J., Learning to Look, New York and London, 1991, p. 314.

MACCHERINI M., “Domenico Beccafumi e ‘L'Amore Costante’ di Alessandro Piccolomini,” in Prospettiva, 1992, pp. 63-65 ill.

Exhibitions

London, The Courtauld Institute, Exhibition of Architectural and Decorative Drawings, 1941, no. 41.

Munich, Haus der Kunst, Das Acquarell, 1400-1950, 1972-1973, pp. 54-55, no. 59, ill.

Florence, Il potere e lo spazio. La scena del Principe, 1980, pp. 337-338, nos. 3.2.

Siena, Pinacoteca Nazionale di Siena, Domenico Beccafumi e il suo tempo, cat. by Andrea de Marchi, Milan: Electa, 1990, no. 139, ill.

Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Linie, Licht und Schatten. Meisterzeichnungen und Skulpturen der Sammlung Jan und Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, exh. cat., 1999, p. 64, no. 25, color ill. p. 65.

Venice, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, The Timeless Eye. Master Drawings from the Jan and Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski Collection, exh. cat., 1999, p. 62, no. 24, color ill. p. 63.

Madrid, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Miradas sin Tiempo. Dibujos, Pinturas y Esculturas de la Coleccion Jan y Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, exh. cat., 2000, p. 72, no. 21, color ill. p. 73.

Paris, Musée Jacquemart-André, La Passion du dessin. Collection Jan et Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, exh. cat., 2002, p. 68, no. 23, color ill. p. 69.

Munich, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Das Ewige Auge - Von Rembrandt bis Picasso. Meisterwerke aus der Sammlung Jan Krugier und Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, exh. cat., 2007, p. 80, no. 32, color ill. p. 81.