Object details
Accession number
1.1.o.8
Primary Creator
Perugino
(Città della Pieve, about 1450 - 1523, Fontignano)
Full title
Man in Umbrian Costume (With a Study of a Head to the Left)
Creation Date
late 15th century
Provenance
Conestabile Collection, Perugia.
Collection of Sir John Charles Robinson (1824–1913), museum curator, collector, and connoisseur, London.
Purchased by the art dealers Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, 1901-2.
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner at auction from Christie's, London on 13 May 1902 for £150 through Thomas Agnew & Sons (Robinson sale, lot 258).
Marks
Inscribed in brown ink (verso, upper left): No. 8 Pietro
Inscribed in black chalk (verso, upper right): 23
Stamped in blue ink (verso, lower right): ISG [in an oval, collector's mark of Isabella Stewart Gardner]
Dimensions
23.6 x 10.6 cm (9 1/4 x 4 3/16 in.)
Display Media
Traces of metalpoint on paper significantly retouched by a later hand in graphite
Web Commentary
Isabella Stewart Gardner kept meticulous records of many of her acquisitions. In keeping with this legacy, object information is continually being reviewed, updated, and enriched in order to give greater access to the collection.
Permanent Gallery Location
Short Gallery
Bibliography
Christie, Manson and Woods. Catalogue of a Valuable Collection of Drawings by Old Masters Formed by a Well-Known Amateur During the Last Forty Years (London, 12-14 May 1902), p. 29, lot 258. (as Perugino, Study of a Young Man)
Rollin van N. Hadley (ed.). Drawings: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1968), pp. 9-10, no. 5. (as Umbrian)
Hilliard Goldfarb et al. Italian Paintings and Drawings Before 1800 in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Unpublished manuscript. (Boston, 1996-2000). (as Umbrian, Workshop of Perugino?)
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