About the Artwork
Adoration of the Magi
early 16th century
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Italian
Italian
Pen and brown ink on buff antique laid paper
Sheet: 6 5/16 × 9 7/8 inches (16 × 25.1 cm)
Drawings
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Founders Society Purchase with funds from Stearns Collection Sale
38.10
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Inscribed, in pen and brown ink, along lower left edge: Benvenuto Garofalo [?] Inscribed, in pencil, upper left, verso: Garofalo Inscribed, in pencil, upper left, verso of mount: 3) Foppa Inscribed, in pencil, upper center, verso of mount: 1500 pres[indecipherable] Inscribed, in pencil, upper right, verso of mount: $140 Inscribed, in pencil, center left, verso of mount: Garofalo Inscribed, in pencil, lower right corner, recto of mount: #35 [partially erased] Inscribed, in pencil, lower left corner, verso of mount: [indecipherable]
Stamp, in purple, lower left corner: Habich (Lugt. 862) Stamp, in black, lower left corner: [unidentified collector, similar to that of M.G.T. De Villenave, Paris (Lugt. 2598), or W. F. Watson, Edinburgh (Lugt. 2599)]
Provenance
unidentified collector, possibly M.G.T. De Villenave (Paris, France) or W. F. Watson (Edinburgh, Scotland, UK). Edward Habich, Boston and Kassel. 1938, Dr. Paul Wescher. 1938-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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"Accessions: January 1, 1938 to December 31, 1938: Drawings." Bulletin of the DIA 18, 5 (1939): p. 11 (as by Vincenzo Foppa).
Italian, French, English, and Spanish Drawings and Watercolors: Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries. New York, 1992, pp. 278-279, no. A17.
Snow, Nicholas. Master Drawings of the Italian Renaissance. Exh.cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1960, no. 18 (as by a norther Italian artist of the early sixteenth century).
Tietze Hans, and Erika Tietze-Conrat. The Drawings of Venetian Painters in the XV and XVI Centuries. New York, 1944, p. 238, no. A1329.
Olszewski, Edward. A Corpus of Drawings in Midwestern Collections. Sixteenth-Century Italian Drawings, vol. 1-2. Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2008, vol. 2, p. 525, cat. 419 (ill.).
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Italian, Adoration of the Magi, early 16th century, pen and brown ink on buff antique laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase with funds from Stearns Collection Sale, 38.10.
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