Fra Bartolomeo

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Fra Bartolomeo
1472-1517
Virgin of the Annunciation
ca. 1495-1500
Pen and brown ink over lead point; verso: pen and brown ink test marks at lower edge.
5 9/16 x 2 15/16 inches (141 x 75 mm)
Thaw Collection.
1976.44
Inscription: 

Inscribed on verso, near upper edge, in graphite, "Fra Bartolomeo"; along left edge, in graphite, "57".
Watermark: Point inside circle, fragment, possibly fleur-de-lis (cf. Briquet II, 1701. Rome, 1534-37).

Provenance: 
Countess Caterina Ottolini-Balbani, Lucca; Stefano Bardini (1836-1922), Florence; Prince of Liechtenstein; his sale, London, Sotheby's, 1 December 1966, lot 13, repr.; P & D Colnaghi & Co, London ; Eugene V. and Claire E. Thaw, New York and Santa Fe.
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Associated names: 

Liechtenstein, Princes of, former owner.
Thaw, Eugene Victor, former owner.
Thaw, Clare, former owner.

Bibliography: 

Ridolfi 1878, 122; New York 1974-75(a), no. 6; Paris 1994-95, 65, under no. 34, fig. 16; New York 1994-95, 274.
Thaw Catalogue Raisonné, 2017, no. 5, repr.
Stampfle, Felice, and Cara D. Denison. Drawings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene V. Thaw. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1975, no. 6, repr.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Eighteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1975-1977. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978, p. 284.

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Bartolomeo, fra
School: 
Italian
Century: 
15th century
Classification: 
Drawing
Department: 
Drawings and Prints