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After Perugino (Pietro di Cristoforo Vannucci)
Italian, c. 1450–1523
The Baptism of Christ
c. 1510
Image Caption
After Perugino (Pietro di Cristoforo Vannucci), The Baptism of Christ, c. 1510, metal point with touches of white heightening (oxidized to black) on grayish-white prepared paper. Clark Art Institute, 1955.1469
Medium
metal point with touches of white heightening (oxidized to black) on grayish-white prepared paper
Dimensions
Overall: 11 1/4 x 7 5/8 in. (28.6 x 19.4 cm)
Object Number
1955.1469
Acquisition
Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status
Off View
Select Bibliography
Paris: Knoedler Galerie.. Exposition de dessins de la collection J. P. Heseltine.. April 23, 1913.. John Postle Heseltine.. Original Drawings by Old Masters of the Italian School, forming part of the collection of J. P. H.. London: privately printed, repr. by J. J. Waddington.. 1914.. 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. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. A Selection of Drawings from the Collection of the Clark Art Institute. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: The Clark, 1974.
Provenance
Bertini, Milan (according to Heseltine); J. P. Heseltine, London (L. 1507, on reverse); Knoedler, Paris (bought by Robert Sterling Clark, 1913).
*"L." refers to F. Lugt, Les Marques de collections de dessins et d'estampes, Amsterdam, 1921 and Supplément, The Hague, 1956.