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Seated Madonna and Child and Various Studies,
ca. 1570–71
Bertoia (Jacopo Zanguidi), Italian, 1544 - ca. 1573
x1948-667
Recto: During his brief career, the painter Jacopo Bertoia worked primarily for the Farnese family, executing decorative projects for their palaces in Parma and Caprarola (outside Rome). His virtuoso and lyrical draftsmanship is captured on this double-sided sheet in a flurry of sketches, none of which relate precisely to any of the artist’s known religious or secular commissions. On the recto, the dramatic tonality of the central Madonna and Child is offset by the calligraphic angels and reclining figures.
Information
Title
Seated Madonna and Child and Various Studies
Dates
ca. 1570–71
Medium
Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash on light tan laid paper; verso: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, and red chalk, on light tan laid paper
Dimensions
40.6 × 27.1 cm (16 × 10 11/16 in.)
frame: 61.8 × 46.5 × 4.3 cm (24 5/16 × 18 5/16 × 1 11/16 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Dan Fellows Platt, Class of 1895
Object Number
x1948-667
Marks/Labels/Seals
Watermark: Crossed arrows with six-pointed star; cf. Briquet 6299 (Augsburg 1554)
Reference Numbers
Gibbons 53
Culture
Materials
Handwritten note: Attribution changed in Italian Drawing Show, 1966. Former attribution by T.P.B. to Parmagianino.;
Attributed to Jacopo Bertoja by Konrad Oberhuber in “Albertina Studien”. (See reference Bib. );
- Italian drawings and sculpture from the Renaissance to the present: [exhibition] sponsored by the Italian Club of Staten Island, at the Staten Island Museum, Nov. 23, 1958 to Jan. 4, 1959, (New York: Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences, 1958)., no. 9
- Konrad Oberhuber, "Zu Jacopo Bertoja und Lelio Orsi", Albertina studien 3, no. 1 (1965): p. 22-33., p. 26; p. 28-29, fig. .5, 6
- Jacob Bean, Italian drawings in the Art Museum, Princeton University; 106 selected examples, (New York: October House, 1966)., no. 15
- Janos Scholz, "Italian Drawings in the Art Museum of Princeton University," Burlington Magazine 109 no. 770 (May, 1967): p. 290-299., p. 293
- Diane DeGrazia Bohlin, The drawings of Jacopo Bertoia, Diss. Princeton University, 1972., p. 169-171, no. 55, pls. 77, 78
- Felton Gibbons, Catalogue of Italian Drawings in The Art Museum, Princeton University, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1977)., Vol. 1: p. 198, no. 637 (illustrated in Vol. 2 under the same catalog number)
- Diane DeGrazia, Correggio and his legacy: sixteenth-century Emilian drawings, (Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1984)., p. 220-221
- Diane De Grazia, Bertoia, Mirola and the Farnese court, (Bologna: Nuova Alfa Editorale, 1991)., p. 133-134, cat. entry D80; pl. 187 (recto), 188 (verso)
- Princeton University Art Museum: Handbook of the Collection (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007)
- Princeton University Art Museum: Handbook of the Collections (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 2013), p. 98-99
- 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.)
