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St. Ansanus Baptizing the Sienese
Francesco Vanni, Italian, 1563–1610
x1951-104
Information
Title
St. Ansanus Baptizing the Sienese
Maker
Medium
Black chalk squared for transfer in red chalk on beige laid paper, lined
Dimensions
37.7 x 21.3 cm (14 13/16 x 8 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Frank Jewett Mather Jr.
Object Number
x1951-104
Signatures
Lower center, pen and brown ink: Cav Vanni.
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Handwritten note: Altar commissioned 1595, finished 1596.;
From Ostrow, “Visions and revisions”: gives some of other drawings relating to this composition and references to others, though not all. Commission of altar was given Vanni in June 1593 and it was completed 1596, date probably still on painting, though not fully legible. (See reference Bib. 4498);
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- "Recent acquisitions," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 10, no. 2 (1951): p. 22-23., p. 23
- Visions and revisions: [exhibition] Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, October 10- November 24 1968, (Providence: Museum of Art, Rhodes Island of Design, 1968)., no. 7-2
- Felton Gibbons, Catalogue of Italian Drawings in The Art Museum, Princeton University, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1977).
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John Marciari and Suzanne Boorsch, Francesco Vanni: art in late renaissance Siena, (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2013).
, cat. no. 18
