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The Martyrdom of Saint Agricola

Artist Ercole Procaccini the Elder (Italian, 1520 - 1595)
Date16th century
MediumBrown ink and wash, squared in black chalk
DimensionsOverall: 13 9/16 × 9 15/16 inches (34.44 × 25.22 cm)
Framed: 21 × 17 × 1 1/4 inches (53.34 × 43.18 × 3.18 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number44-29/8
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Exhibition History

Master Drawings from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, Washington University Gallery of Art, Saint Louis, MO, September 22-December 3, 1989, unnumbered, as The Martyrdom of Saint Agricola.

Master Drawings from the Permanent Collection, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, February 17-March 25, 1990, no cat., as The Martyrdom of Saint Agricola.

Master Drawings from Polish Collections, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, April 17-June 6, 1993. NAMA addition.

Dürer to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, The Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK, June 23-August 18, 1996; The Cummer Museum and Gardens, Jacksonville, FL, September 20-November 29, 1996; The Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, December 21, 1996-March 2, 1997, no. 7, as The Martyrdom of Saint Agricola.

Dürer to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Permanent Collection, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, July 12-September 6, 1998, unnumbered, as The Martyrdom of Saint Agricola.

Saints & Sinners, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, January 15-December 13, 2020.

Provenance

With Gavin Hamilton (1723-1798), Rome, by 1798;

Purchased from Gavin Hamilton by Uvedale Price (1747-1829), Foxley, Herefordshire, UK, by 1798-1829 [1];

Purchased at his posthumous sale, A Most Valuable and Interesting Collection of Ancient Drawings of the Italian, German, Dutch, Flemish and French Schools, etc., Sotheby’s, London, May 3-4, 1854, lot 176, erroneously as by Camillo Procaccini, as Martyrdom of a Saint, by Edward Daniell (1802-1866), London, 1854-1866;

With Richard Johnson (1810-1881), Kemnal Manor, Chislehurst, UK [2];

By descent to Richard Johnson Walker, Bramshott Court, Liphook, Hampshire, UK;

With Johann Waldemar de Rehling Quistgaard (1877-1962), Copenhagen and New York, by 1944;

Purchased from Johann Waldemar de Rehling Quistgaard by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1944.


NOTES:

[1] Lugt 2048

[2] Lugt 2216

Published References

Catalogue of a Most Valuable and Interesting Collection of Ancient Drawings of the Italian, German, Dutch, Flemish and French Schools, etc. (London: S. Leigh Sotheby and John Wilkinson, May 3-4, 1854), 13, erroneously as by Camillo Procaccini, as Martyrdom of a Saint.

Roger Ward and Mark S. Weil, Master Drawings from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, exh. cat. (St. Louis, MO: Washington University Gallery of Art, 1989), 10, 16, (repro.), as The Martyrdom of Saint Agricola.

Roger Ward, Durer to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, exh. cat. (Kansas City, Missouri: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 51-53, (repro.), as The Martyrdom of Saint Agricola.

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