Information
- Title
- St. Joseph with his flowering staff
- Object Number
- x1949-40
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink with brown wash on cream laid paper
- Dates
- ca. 1636
- Dimensions
- 16 x 20.7 cm (6 5/16 x 8 1/8 in.)
- Credit Line
- Bequest of Dan Fellows Platt, Class of 1895
- Culture
- Italian
- Marks/Labels/Seals
- Watermark: bird on triple mound in circle;
Stamped, lower right: "B" (Collector's stamp of E. Bouverie (Lugt 325) (See reference Bib. 4661);
- Type
- Materials
E. Bouverie; Parsons; Purchased by Platt from Parsons, 1922.;
[dated] 1630s (Mahon);
- Frits Lugt, Les marques de collections de dessins & d'estampes: marques estampillées et écrites de collections particulières et publiques: marques de marchands, de monteurs et d'imprimeurs: cachets de vente d'artistes décédés: marques de graveurs apposées après le tirage des planches : timbres d'édition, etc., (Amsterdam: Vereenigde drukkerijen; La Haye: Nijhoff, 1921)., Lugt no. 325
- Jacob Bean, Italian drawings in the Art Museum, Princeton University; 106 selected examples, (New York: October House, 1966)., no. 38
- Diane De Grazia, Guercino drawings in the Art Museum, Princeton University, March ll through April 6, 1969, (Princeton, NJ, Princeton University, 1969)., no. 11
- Felton Gibbons, Catalogue of Italian Drawings in The Art Museum, Princeton University, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1977)., Vol. 1: pp. 107-108, no. 308 (illustrated in Vol. 2 under the same catalog number)
- Nathan Goldstein, Figure drawing: the structure, anatomy, and expressive design of human form, (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1981)., p. 56, fig. 2.32
- David Stone, Guercino, master draftsman: works from North American collections, (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Art Museum; Bologna, Italy: Nuova Alfa Editoriale, 1991)., cat. no. 39; p. 95 (illus.)
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