FJK 030
Costa Lorenzo, l'ancien (Italian, Ferrara ca. 1460–1535 Mantua)
Study for Noli me tangere
ca. 1500-1510
5 × 3 15/64 in. (127 × 82 mm)
Medium
Pen and brown ink over traces of graphite on lightly tinted pink watercolor prepared wove paper
Signed and inscribed in brown ink, lower center: And. Mantegna
Numbered from Somers Collection, right: g. 77
Certificate
Letter dated 16 December 16, 1993 from Mr. Nicholas Turner, Deputy Keeper, The British Museum, London
Origin
Padre Sebastiano Resta Collection, Milan and Rome (Lugt 2992)
Giovanni Matteo Marchetti Collection, Bishop in Arezzo (cf. Lugt 2911)
Lord John Somers Collection, London (Lugt 2981)
Colnaghi, London
Gallery Boerner Collection, Düsseldorf, July 9, 1983
Jan Krugier Collection, Monaco, JK 3715
Jan Krugier Foundation
Exhibitions
Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Linie, Licht und Schatten. Meisterzeichnungen und Skulpturen der Sammlung Jan und Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, 1999, p. 28, no. 8, color ill. p. 29.
Venice, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, The Timeless Eye. Master Drawings from the Jan and Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski Collection, 1999, p. 46, no. 16, color ill. p. 47.
Madrid, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Miradas sin Tiempo. Dibujos, Pinturas y Esculturas de la Coleccion Jan y Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, 2000, p. 50, no. 11, color ill. p. 51.
Paris, Musée Jacquemart-André, La Passion du dessin. Collection Jan et Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, 2002, Addendum, no. 4 color ill.
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. 44, no. 14, color ill. p. 45.
Notes
The drawing is inscribed in the manuscript inventory of the Resta-Sommers Collection under “77 Andrea Mantegna.” The inventory, now at the British Museum (Lansdowne Manuscript 802), was prepared in the early eighteenth century by J. Richardson Sen.
The drawing has also been attributed to the school of Roberti. It can be compared to the Predella di Santa Maria della Rondine, now at The National Gallery of Art in Washington.
Anonymous author (translated from French)
Request for information/loan
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