Currently not on view
Design for a lunette over an arch with nude figures
Barbatelli (Bernardino Poccetti), Italian, 1548–1612
x1970-6
Information
Title
Design for a lunette over an arch with nude figures
Medium
red chalk over traces of black chalk on beige laid paper, squared in red chalk, edge mounted to beige laid paper.
Dimensions
22.4 × 33.5 cm (8 13/16 × 13 3/16 in.)
frame: 54.5 × 41.8 × 2.9 cm (21 7/16 × 16 7/16 × 1 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Laura P. Hall Memorial Fund
Object Number
x1970-6
Inscription
Inscribed recto, lower left, in graphite: 308.1
Marks/Labels/Seals
Lily over three mountains within
double circle (similar to Briquet 11935, Rome 1554)
Reference Numbers
Gibbons 500
Culture
Materials
Subject
Dr. Ludwig Pollak, stamp (L. 788b) recto, lower right, in black; Wolfhart Bürgi, Berne, stamp (L. 3400) recto, lower right, in red; H. Shickman Gallery, New York; Bought from Shickman Galleries, New York. Their inventory number D1117;
- "Acquisitions 1970", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 30, no. 1 (1971): p. 22-30., p. 25
- Felton Gibbons, Catalogue of Italian Drawings in The Art Museum, Princeton University, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1977).
- Larry J. Feinberg, From studio to studiolo: Florentine draftsmanship under the first Medici grand dukes, (Oberlin, OH: Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College; Seattle, WA: Distributed by University of Washington Press, 1991)., p 144-145, cat. no. 35; p. 145 (illus.)
- Stefania Vasetti, Bernardino Poccetti e gli Strozzi: committenze a Firenze nel primo decennio del Seicento, (Firenze: Opus libri, 1994)., p. 21; p. 55, no. 9 (illus.)
- Laura Giles, Lia Markey, Claire Van Cleave, et. al., Italian Master Drawings from the Princeton University Art Museum, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 2014)., p. 44, cat. no. 17; p. 45 (illus.); p. 46 (verso illus.); p. 257-258, app. no. 86; p. 258 (illus.)
