About the Artwork
Study of a Prostrate Monk
ca. 1612
Fra Semplice da Verona
1589-1654
Italian
Unknown
Black and red chalk, heightened with white chalk, on gray-green laid paper
Sheet: 8 5/8 × 11 3/4 inches (21.9 × 29.8 cm)
Drawings
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Founders Society Purchase, Laura H. Murphy Fund
34.141
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
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Watermark: [crown over letters AR, within a circle, below a trefoil] Stamp, lower right: Archibald G.B. Russell (Lugt Suppl. 277a)
Provenance
Archibald G. B. Russell, (London and Swanage, England). Leverton Harris. May 22, 1928, sold by (Sotheby's, London, England) no. 49. Dr. N. Beets (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
1934-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Italian, French, English, and Spanish Drawings and Watercolors: Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries. New York, 1992, p. 73, no. 25, p. 26 (pl. x).
Catalogue of an Exhibition of Italian Art of the Seventeenth Century. Exh.cat., Burlington Fine Arts Club. London, 1925, no. 39, p. 42.
The Magnasco Society, London, 1927, no. 11
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Fra Semplice da Verona, Study of a Prostrate Monk, ca. 1612, black and red chalk, heightened with white chalk, on gray-green laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Laura H. Murphy Fund, 34.141.
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