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Two Cattle,
late 1580s
Andrea Boscoli, Italian, 1550–1607
2006-48
This study of two cattle was recently attributed to Andrea Boscoli, a prolific draftsman who made copies after a wide range of sources throughout his career. The artist’s incisive chalk technique is characterized by a geometrizing approach to form—here visible in the faceted treatment of the animals’ dappled skin—that pervades all of his drawings. In this case, Boscoli may have improvised on a Northern print source for the juxtaposition of the two animals, which closely resembles a detail of Lucas van Leyden’s celebrated engraving The Milkmaid.
Information
Title
Two Cattle
Dates
late 1580s
Maker
Medium
Red and black chalk on beige laid paper
Dimensions
15.1 × 17 cm (5 15/16 × 6 11/16 in.)
frame: 40.6 × 53.3 × 3.2 cm (16 × 21 × 1 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Felton Gibbons Fund
Object Number
2006-48
Inscription
Inscribed verso, lower left, in graphite: Berchem
Marks/Labels/Seals
Watermark: Bird within circle (not documentable);
Culture
Materials
Subject
Sale, Christie’s, New York, January 22, 2004, lot 24 (See reference Bib. 5418); sale, Piasa, Paris, March 18, 2005, lot 32 (See reference Bib. 5419); Thomas Le Claire, Hamburg; purchased by the Art Museum, 2006.;
- Ralph E Carpenter, Old master and 19th century drawings: Thursday 22 January 2004, (New York: Christie's, 2004). , lot 24
- Dessins anciens du XVIe au XIXe siècle, (Paris: PIASA (Firm); Drouot-Richelieu (Firm), 2005). , lot 32
- "Acquisitions of the Princeton University Art Museum 2006," Record of the Princeton University Art Museum 66 (2007): p. 41-74., p. 68
- 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. 243, app. no. 50 (illus.)
