Saint Sebastian
Drawing and the Human Form 1400-1964, University of Iowa Art Department, Iowa City, IA, May 1964, no. 48.
Albertina, Vienna, 1925;
Sale, Auktion VII: Handzeichnungen alter Meister: Der italienischen, deutschen, französischen und niederländischen Schulen des XVI. Bis XVIII. Jahrhunderts; Sammlung E.S. Paris U. And. Besitz, Hans Goltz, Munich, lot 189, April 29, 1927;
With Gilhofer and Ranschburg, Lucerne, Switzerland, by 1930;
Their sale, Miniaturen des XIII.bis XV. Jahrhunderts, Handzeichnungen des XV. bix XIX. Jahrhunderts, H. Gilhofer & H. Ranschburg, Lucerne, Switzerland, lot 50, 1930;
Purchased in Europe by Alden Galleries, Kansas City, MO, by November 1933 [1];
Purchased from Alden Galleries by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1934.
NOTES:
[1] In a letter to J. C. Nichols, Nelson-Atkins Trustee, dated April 3, 1934, Director Paul Gardner mentions that John Bender, Director, Alden Galleries, brought this drawing back from a buying trip to Europe. Bender travelled to Bern, Switzerland, Paris, and London in November 1933. Nelson-Atkins Archives, RG01-01, Director’s Office Records, box 1, folder 3, Alden Galleries.Auktion VII: Handzeichnungen alter Meister: Der italienischen, deutschen, französischen und niederländischen Schulen des XVI. Bis XVIII. Jahrhunderts; Sammlung E.S. Paris U. And. Besitz (Munich: Hans Goltz, April 27, 1927), 17, as Der heilige Sebastian.
Drawing and the Human Form 1400-1964, exh. cat. (Iowa City, IA: University of Iowa Art Department, 1964), (repro.).
Hugh MacAndrew, Ashmolean Museum Oxford: Catalogue of the Collection of Drawings, vol. 3, Italian Schools: Supplement (Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press, 1980), 126.
David Ekserdjian, Denis Mahon, and Helen Davies, “Guercino Drawings from the Collections of Denis Mahon and the Ashmolean Museum,” Burlington Magazine 128, no. 996 (1986): 37.
