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After Perugino (Pietro di Cristoforo Vannucci)
Italian, c. 1450–1523
Mercury
c. 1500
Image Caption
After Perugino (Pietro di Cristoforo Vannucci), Mercury, c. 1500, metalpoint, brush and gray ink, heightened with white, on light grayish-brown prepared paper. Clark Art Institute, 1955.1459
Medium
metalpoint, brush and gray ink, heightened with white, on light grayish-brown prepared paper
Dimensions
Overall: 9 1/4 x 7 3/16 in. (23.5 x 18.3 cm)
Object Number
1955.1459
Acquisition
Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status
Off View
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Crifo, Nicole Dacos. Il collegia del Cambio a Perugia. Milan: Amilcare Pizzi. S. Arthur Strong.. Drawings by the Old Masters in the Collection of the Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery.. London.. 1902.. Oskar Fischel.. "Die Zeichnungen der Umbrer," Part II.. Jahrbuch der königlich preussischen Kunstsammlungen, Beiheft zum 38. Band. Berlin.. 1917.. Gnoli, Umberto. Pietro Perugino. Spoleto: Claudio Argentieri. 1923. Lionello Venturi.. Il Perugino, gli affreschi del Collegio del Cambio.. Edizione Radio Italiana. n.p.. (1955?).. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Fifteen: Italian Paintings and Drawings. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1961. Haverkamp-Begemann, Egbert, Standish D. Lawder, and Charles W. Talbot, Jr. Drawings from the Clark Art Institute: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Robert Sterling Clark Collection of European and American Drawings, Sixteenth Through Nineteenth Centuries, at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown. 2 volumes. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1964. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Thirty-one: Drawings of the 16th, 17th and 18th Centuries. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: 1965.
Provenance
Fra Sebastiano Resta, Milan (L. 2981; Resta Number: g. 117);* G. M. Marchetti, Arezzo; John Lord Somers, London (L. 2981); Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery, Wilton House; Colnaghi, London (bought by Robert Sterling Clark, 1919).
*"L." refers to F. Lugt, Les Marques de collections de dessins et d'estampes, Amsterdam, 1921 and Supplément, The Hague, 1956.