Baccio della Porta, called Fra Bartolommeo (1472-1517)

Details

Baccio della Porta, called Fra Bartolommeo (1472-1517)

Head of an Angel in Profile looking up to the right (recto); Study of a Hand (verso, laid down)

black chalk, on light brown paper
205 x 163mm.

Provenance

Earl of Warwick (L.2600); Christie's, 20 May 1896, lot 18, (#5.10s. to Sir Charles Robinson)
Sir Charles Robinson (L. 1433)
Sir Herbert Cooke
Anon. sale, Christie's, 11 Dec. 1979, lot 31, illustrated, as Giovanni Antonio Sogliani (#1,300)

Literature

B. Berenson, The Drawings of the Florentine Painters, Chicago, 1938 and 1970, no. 2736 (as Giovanni Antonio Sogliani)
C. Fischer, Fra Bartolommeo, Rotterdam, 1990, under no. 36, fig. 70

Exhibited

Toronto, The Art Gallery of Ontario and New York, The Pierpont Morgan Library, Italian Drawings from the Collection of Duke Roberto Ferretti, 1985-6, no. 1, illustrated (as Giovanni Antonio Sogliani)

Lot Essay

Sold in these Rooms, 20 May 1896 as by Fra Bartolommeo this sheet was published as the work of Giovanni Antonio Sogliani by Berenson, an attribution which was maintained by David McTavish in the Ferretti catalogue of 1985. More recently, Chris Fischer has argued convincingly for the authorship of Fra Bartolommeo, and associated it with a Study for the Head of an Angel in Rotterdam (Fischer, op.cit., no. 36). Fischer associates the Rotterdam drawing directly with one in Frate's Vision of Saint Bernard of 1504-6 in the Uffizi, he only states that this study is drawn from the same head

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