Angel Playing a Lute

Angel Playing a Lute, n.d.

Fra Bartolommeo (Italian, 1472–1517)

Black, white, and red chalk on beige laid paper, 14-3/8 in. x 10-1/4 in. Crocker Art Museum, E. B. Crocker Collection, 1871.221

Drawing

15th Century

16th Century

European Art

Theme: The Crockers

music

people

Details

  • artist/culture
    Fra Bartolommeo
  • nationality
    Italian, 1472–1517
  • title
    Angel Playing a Lute
  • date
    n.d.
  • medium
    Black, white, and red chalk on beige laid paper
  • dimensions
    14-3/8 in. x 10-1/4 in.
  • credit line
    Crocker Art Museum, E. B. Crocker Collection
  • accession no.
    1871.221
  • collection
    European Art
Inscriptions and Marks – Angel Playing a Lute

dark brown ink, lower left: 22; verso, black chalk, lower margin: Fra: Bartolomeo; Lugt 2445 (Lawrence) llc recto

Provenance – Angel Playing a Lute

Sir Thomas Lawrence, London, before 1830; Edwin Bryant Crocker, Sacramento, by 1871; gift of his widow Margaret to the Museum, 1885

Literature – Angel Playing a Lute

William Breazeale, with Cara Denison, Stacey Sell, and Freyda Spira, A Pioneering Collection: Master Drawings from the Crocker Art Museum, exh. cat. Sacramento and tour, 2010, no. 2
William Breazeale, "Old Masters in Old California: the Origins of the Drawings Collection at the Crocker Art Museum," in Master Drawings, vol. XLVI, no. 2, Summer 2008, pp. 210, 215
Jane Davidson, A Renaissance Collector's Cabinet of Art, exh. cat. Reno, 1982, no. 9
Master Drawings from the E. B. Crocker Art Gallery at the Church Fine Arts Gallery, University of Nevada, Reno, exh. cat. Reno, 1978, no. 12
Master Drawings from Sacramento, exh. cat. Sacramento and tour, 1971, no. 9
Russell Bohr, The Italian Drawings in the E. B. Crocker Art Gallery Collection, Sacramento, California, unpubl. Ph.D. diss, University of California at Berkeley, 1958, no. 16
Alfred Neumeyer, "Fra Bartolomeo," in Old Master Drawings, vol. XIII, June 1938–March 1939, p. 61

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