Images(2)

Draped male figure seen from behind

Workshop of Pietro Perugino Italian, 1448 - 1523

Date1481-1482

Period15th century

Classification(s)

Art / Drawings

Object TypeDrawing

Extent1 sheet

Registration NumberFAS/D/5

DescriptionThis is a study after a figure of an apostle seen on the right in the fresco 'La Consegna delle Chiavi' or 'Delivery of the Keys' by Pietro Perugino in the Sistine Chapel, Vatican, Rome, dated 1481-2. It is possibly a training exercise executed by one of Perugino's pupils copying from the master's fresco.Material

Metalpoint (brass) with white lead heightening on laid paper prepared with a ground

Technique

Drawing

Place of Manufacture

Rome, Italy

DimensionsSupport: 20.8 x 11.7 cm Backing: 26 x 17 cm (10 1/4 x 6 11/16 in.) Mounted (museum): 49.9 x 36.3 cmProvenanceAcquired for the museum in 1933 from an unknown private collection in Malta. Published ReferencesMuseum Annual Report (MAR) 1933-34, p. 15.
Stefania Lumetta, I Grandi Disegni del National Museum of Fine Arts di Valletta, Malta. L'Acquisizione di Vincenzo Bonello negli anni di curatela 1933-34, unpublished thesis, Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, Scuola di Specializzazione in Beni Storico Artistici, Università degli Studi di Genova, 2013; pp. 18-20.
John Cauchi, 'Un disegno del Carpaccio ed uno del Perugino a La Vallette', Paragone, XVII, no 191, 1966, pp. 44-45.

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