Details
| Artist | attributed to Bartolomeo Schidone, Italian, 1578-1615 |
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| Date | between 1610 and 1615 |
| Medium | pen and brown ink and brown wash on dark buff laid paper |
| Dimensions | Sheet: 6 1/8 × 5 1/8 inches (15.6 × 13 cm) |
| Credit Line | Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps |
| Accession Number | 09.1SDR78 |
| Department | Prints, Drawings & Photographs |
| Not On View |
Signed, Marks, Inscriptions
| Marks | Stamp, in black, lower right: Richardson (Lugt 2170) |
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| Inscriptions | Inscribed, in pen and black ink, lower right corner: R Inscribed, in pencil, verso, upper left corner: 18003 Inscribed, in pen and brown ink, verso, across upper quarter: Antoine de Allegris called Corregio [sic] born in 1494 à Corrège dans le Modénois died in 1534 at | the age of 40. He was modest in his manners, amiable & charitable. The manner of his Death | was curious: It was occasioned by a fever wch he caught by walking four leauges under a | burning sun with the profits of one of his pictures wch had been paid him in Copper mo- | ney & wch his joy & anxiety to relieve the distresses of his Parents would neither allow him to send nor to delay. Inscribed, in pen and brown ink, verso, following previous inscription: Of the Lombard School Inscribed, in pen and brown ink, verso, lower right corner: £ 10.10.0 [canceled with pencil] Inscribed, in pencil, verso, lower right corner: £ 3.3-0 Inscribed, in pencil, verso, center left edge: 422 [underscored] |
Provenance
Jonathan Richardson, Jr. (London, England).
possibly Sir Joshua Reynolds (London, England).
March 4-7, 1889, sold by (Sotheby's, London, England) no. 820;
James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA);
Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA);
1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
possibly Sir Joshua Reynolds (London, England).
March 4-7, 1889, sold by (Sotheby's, London, England) no. 820;
James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA);
Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA);
1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
Published References
Italian, French, English, and Spanish Drawings and Watercolors: Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries. New York, 1992, pp. 82-83, no. 32.
Popham, A.E. Correggio's Drawings. London, 1957, p. 176, A21 (as by a seventeenth century artist).
Scheyer, Ernst. Bulletin of the DIA 10 (1935-36): p. 106 (as by Corregio).
Scheyer, Ernst. "Drawings by Corregio." Bulletin of the DIA 15, 7 (April 1936): pp. 13-14.
Popham, A.E. Correggio's Drawings. London, 1957, p. 176, A21 (as by a seventeenth century artist).
Scheyer, Ernst. Bulletin of the DIA 10 (1935-36): p. 106 (as by Corregio).
Scheyer, Ernst. "Drawings by Corregio." Bulletin of the DIA 15, 7 (April 1936): pp. 13-14.
