Study of a Prostrate Monk

Fra Semplice da Verona Italian, 1589-1654
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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)

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Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Founders Society Purchase, Laura H. Murphy Fund

34.141

This work is in the public domain.

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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.

Study of a Prostrate Monk
Study of a Prostrate Monk