Attributed to Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio (Milan 1466/67-1516)

Saint John the Evangelist, bust-length, looking down to the left

細節

Attributed to Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio (Milan 1466/67-1516)
Saint John the Evangelist, bust-length, looking down to the left
black chalk, pastel on brown paper
26¾ x 19 7/8 in. (679 x 502 mm.)

來源

Count Arconati.
Marchese Cosnedi.
Zaccaria Sagredo.
Robert Udny.
Sir Thomas Lawrence; Christie's, London, 17-19 June 1830, lot 430 (92 guineas to Woodburn).
Samuel Woodburn, from whom purchased by
The Prince of Orange, later King William II of Holland; The Hague, 12-20 August 1850, lot 13 (as Leonardo da Vinci, sold together with seven other heads from the series for 8,000 florins to 'Weimar').
Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar, and by descent; Sotheby's, London, 28 June 1962, lot 77 (as Andrea Solario).
David Griffiths; Sotheby's, London, 28 March 1968, lot 5 (as Andrea Solario).

出版

E. Wright, Some observations made in travelling through France and Italy, London, 1730, pp. 470-71 (as Leonardo da Vinci).
C.-N. Cochin, Voyage d'Italie, Paris, 1758, p. 146 (as Leonardo da Vinci).
J. Sighart, The Lord's Supper. Christ and His Twelve Disciples. From the Original Crayon-Drawings of Leonardo da Vinci in the Possession of Her Royal Highness the Grand Duchess of Saxe-Weimar by John Niessen, London, 1868, illustrated (as Leonardo da Vinci).
J. Sighart, Das Abendmahl des Herrn. Christus und die zwölf Apostel. Nach den im Besitze Ihrer Königlichen der Frau Grossherzogin von Sachsen Weimar befindlichen Original-Pastellbildern von Leonardo gezeichnet von Johannes Niessen, Munich, 1874, illustrated (as Leonardo da Vinci).
G. Frizzoni, 'I disegni delle teste degli apostoli nel Cenacolo di Leonardo da Vinci,' in Archivio storico dell'arte 7, 1894, 1, pp. 41-49, fig. 2 (as Andrea Solario?).
G. Dehio, 'Zu den Kopien nach Lionardos Abendmahl', Jahrbuch der Königlich preussischen Kunstsammlungen, 1896, 17, pp. 181-5 (as after Leonardo da Vinci).
E. Müntz, Leonardo da Vinci: Artist, Thinker and Man of Science, New York and London, 1898, I, p. 191, pl. X (as after Leonardo da Vinci).
B. Berenson, The Drawings of the Florentine Painters, New York, 1903, I, p. 156 (as Andrea Solario).
O. Hoerth, Das Abendmahl des Leonardo da Vinci: Ein Beitrag zur Frage seiner künstlerischen Rekonstruktion, Leipzig, 1907, pp. 198-222, fig. 24 (as after Leonardo da Vinci).
K. Badt, Andrea Solario: Sein Leben und seine Werke, Leipzig, 1914, p. 188 (as after Andrea Solario).
F. Malaguzzi Valeri, La Corte di Lodovico il Moro, II: Bramante e Leonardo da Vinci, Milan, 1915, pp. 534-6, 544, fig. 592 (as Andrea Solario).
F. Lugt, Les Marques de Collections de Dessins & d'Estampes, Amsterdam, 1921, p. 456.
C. Horst, 'L'Ultima Cena di Leonardo nel riflesso delle copie e delle imitazioni', Raccolta Vinciana, 1930-34, no. 14, pp. 172-6 (as after Leonardo da Vinci).
W. von Seidlitz, Leonardo da Vinci, Vienna, 1935, p. 169 (as after Leonardo da Vinci).
B. Berenson, The Drawings of the Florentine Painters, Amplified Edition, Chicago, 1938, I, p. 174, note 1 (as Andrea Solario).
K. Clark, Leonardo da Vinci: An Account of His Development as an Artist, Cambridge, 1939, p. 94 (as after Leonardo da Vinci).
E. Möller, Das Abendmahl des Lionardo da Vinci, Baden-Baden, 1952, pp. 103-8, fig. 64 (as after Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio).
B. Berenson, I disegni dei pittori fiorentini, Milan, 1961, I, p. 254, note 1 (as Andrea Solario).
D.A. Brown, Leonardo's 'Last Supper': Precedents and Reflections, exhib. cat., Washington, National Gallery of Art, 1983, under no. 6, (as Antonio Boltraffio?).
D.A. Brown, Andrea Solario, Milan, 1987, p. 270, note 98 (as after Leonardo da Vinci).

展覽

London, Woodburn Gallery, Fifth Exhibition. A catalogue of one hundred original drawings by J. Romano, F. Primaticcio, L. da Vinci, and Pierino del Vaga, collected by Sir Thomas Lawrence, late President of the Royal Academy, 1836, part of no. 75.
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Sixteenth Century Italian Drawings in New York Collections, 1994, no. 46b.

拍品專文

Drawn after the head of Saint John the Evangelist, the apostle sixth from the left of Leonardo da Vinci's fresco of the The Last Supper in the monastery of Santa Maria della Grazie outside Milan.
Please see the note to the previous lot.