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St. Bernardino of Siena Studying the Scriptures in a Landscape

St. Bernardino of Siena Studying the Scriptures in a Landscape

(Italian, about 1477–1510)
(Italian (Venetian), active in 1496–1530)
undated
Medium/TechniquePen and brown ink on cream paper
DimensionsSheet: 16.6 x 19 cm (6 9/16 x 7 1/2 in.)
Mount: 19.4 x 22.4 cm (7 5/8 x 8 13/16 in.)
Credit LineJohn William Wheelwright Fund
Accession number19.126
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsDrawings
InscriptionsRecto on tablet held by monk in pen and brown ink: IHS Mount, recto lower right in graphite pencil: Giorgione Backing sheet, recto upper right in pen and brown ink: 28 Backing sheet, verso upper center in graphite pencil: from Sir Peter Lelys Collection Backing sheet, verso center in pen and brown ink: 136 Backing sheet, verso right in graphite pencil: Franciscan Monk in Landscape Backing sheet, verso lower right in graphite pencil: from Sir Peter Lelys Collection Backing sheet, verso lower right in graphite pencil (in hand of Charles Sackville Bale): Giorgione Backing sheet, verso lower left in pen and brown ink (in hand of William Esdaile): Formerly in the collection of Nath Hone / afterwards of Sir Jos. Reynolds. Backing sheet, verso lower left in pen and brown ink (in hand of William Esdaile): 1814 WE P 6 N 33 [0 -- crossed out]. Mount, verso lower right in graphite pencil (in hand of Charles Eliot Norton): C. S. Bale. / Bo't at his sale, 1882.
ProvenanceSir Peter Lely (b. 1618 - d. 1680; cf. Lugt 2092-2094), London. Nathaniel Hone (b. 1718 - d. 1784; Lugt 2793), London. Sir Joshua Reynolds (b. 1723 - d. 1792; Lugt 2364), London. William Esdaile (b. 1758 - d. 1837; Lugt 2617), London. William Young Ottley (b. 1771 - d. 1836; Lugt 2662), London. Thomas Thane (b. 1782 - d. 1846; Lugt 2461), London. Charles Sackville Bale (b. 1791 - d. 1880; Lugt 640-641), London; June 9, 1881, posthumous Sackville sale, Christie's, London, lot 2299, to Charles Eliot Norton, Cambridge, MA; by descent to Norton's daughter, Miss Sara Norton, Boston; from whom purchased by MFA, April 1919.
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