About the Artwork
God the Father Supported by Angels
ca. 1530
Il Pordenone
1483-1539
Italian
Unknown
Pen and brown ink and gray wash, heightened with white, on green-gray laid paper
Sheet: 15 × 10 1/4 inches (38.1 × 26 cm)
Drawings
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund
34.150
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Inscribed, in pen and brown ink, upper left, verso: [indecipherable, partially under hinge] Inscribed, in pen and black ink, center, verso: Di Pordenone Inscribed, in pen and brown ink, center, verso: A Inscribed, in pencil, along lower edge, verso: NBRGG | Cicinio, Gio, Antonio (Pordenone) Inscribed, in pen and black ink, along lower edge, verso: Di mano propria di gio. Ant. licino deto il Pordenone
Watermark: [anchor within a circle, partially obscured; similar to Briquet 459-463] Stamp, lower left corner: H.W. Campe (Lugt 1391)
Provenance
H. W. Campe (Leipzig, Germany). Hermann Voss (Berlin, Germany)
1934-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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"Accessions: January 1, 1935." Bulletin of the DIA 14, no.5 (1935): p. 57.
Arisi, F. and R. Arisi. Santa Maria di Campagnola A Piacenza. Piacenza, 1984, p. 188.
Cohen, Charles. E. The Drawings of Giovanni Antonio Pordenone. Corpus Graphicum, vol. 3., ed. Terisio Pignatti. Florence. 1980, p. 70 (fig. 62) and passim.
Fiocco, Giuseppe. Giovanni Antonio Pordenone. Udine, 1939, pp. 104, 153.
Fiocco, Giuseppe. Il Pordenone. Padova, 1943, p. 125.
Furlan, Caterina. Il Pordenone. Milan, 1988, p. 270, no. D31.
Italian, French, English, and Spanish Drawings and Watercolors: Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries. New York, 1992, pp. 56-57, no. 14, p. 22 (pl. vi).
Olszewski , Edward J. The Draftsman's Eye: Late Italian Renaissance Schools and Styles. Exh. cat. Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, 1981, p. 129 (ill.) no. 104.
Schwarzweller, K. "Giovanni Antonio Pordenone." PhD diss., University of Gottingen, 1935, p. 137, no. 15.
Tietze Hans, and Erika Tietze-Conrat. The Drawings of Venetian Painters in the XV and XVI Centuries. New York, 1944, p. 236, no. 1307.
Olszewski, Edward. A Corpus of Drawings in Midwestern Collections. Sixteenth-Century Italian Drawings, vol. 1-2. Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2008, vol. 1, pp. 345-346, cat. 280 (ill.).
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Il Pordenone, God the Father Supported by Angels, ca. 1530, pen and brown ink and gray wash, heightened with white, on green-gray laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund, 34.150.
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