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Saint Jerome (recto); Soldier with a Spear (verso)

Vittore Carpaccio  (Italian, Venice 1460/66?–1525/26 Venice)

Date:
1460–1525
Medium:
Brush with black ink and gray wash, over traces of black chalk or charcoal, highlighted with white gouache on blue paper (recto); black chalk, highlighted with white gouache, with some brush and gray wash (verso)
Dimensions:
6 3/4 x 4 1/8 in. (17.2 x 10.5 cm); maximum; irregularly cut
Classification:
Drawings
Credit Line:
Purchase, Harry G. Sperling Fund, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, and Fletcher and Rogers Funds, 1998
Accession Number:
1998.14a, b

This artwork is not on display

  • Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

    Inscription: On verso, annotated by the hand usually identified with the "Borghese-Sagredo" album (Zaccaria Sagredo?) in pen and brown ink, at right center, "S.V. nº: 13" and at bottom corner, "Carpaccio".

    Marking: No watermark.

  • Provenance

    Borghese-Sagredo Album ; Zaccaria Sagredo (Venice, 1653–1729); Private Collection, Lyon ; Katrin Bellinger Kunsthandel, Munich; Vendor: Katrin Bellinger Kunsthandel , Munich

  • References

    Pietro Scarpa Interpretazioni Veneziani, Studi di Storia dell'Arte in Onore di Michelangelo Muraro Disegni Sconosciuti di Vittor Carpaccio. Edited by David Rosand, 1984, fig. no. 1 and 2, pp. 133-135, ill.

    Konrad Oberhuber, Pietro Scarpa Drawings Defined. Edited by Walter L. Strauss, Edited by Tracie Felker, New York, 1987, fig. no. 7, p. 390, ill.

    "The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin" Recent Acquisitions: A Selection: 1997-1998. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, no. 2, 56 (Fall), New York, Fall 1998, p. 18, ill.



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