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recto overall
Two Seated Men (recto); Study Sketches (verso)
recto overall
recto overall

Two Seated Men (recto); Study Sketches (verso)

Artist Filippino Lippi, called Filippo (Italian, 1457 - 1504)
Date1480
MediumPen and ink and red chalk heightened with white (recto); Black chalk (verso)
DimensionsOverall: 8 1/4 × 9 3/4 inches (20.96 × 24.77 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number56-71
On View
Not on view
Collections
Exhibition History

The Lively Arts of the Renaissance, Cullinan Hall, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, January 15-February 21, 1960, no. 68, as Two Seated Men (recto).

Provenance

John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll (1680-1743), Sudbrook Park, Petersham, United Kingdom, by 1743;

Prince Liechtenstein;

Purchased from Richard H. Zinser, Forest Hills, NY, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, 1956.

Published References

“Accessions of American and Canadian Museums: July-September, 1956,” The Art Quarterly 19, no. 4 (Winter 1956): 422-23, (repro.), as Two Seated Men (recto).

Ross E. Taggart, ed., Handbook of the Collections in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 4th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1959), 64, (repro.), as Two Seated Figures (recto).

The Lively Arts of the Renaissance, exh. cat. (Houston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1960), unpaginated, (repro.), as Two Seated Men (recto).

Bernard Berenson, I disegni dei pittori fiorentini (Milan: Electa Editrice S.p.A, 1961), 261, as Giovane paludato seduto in profile a destra, con il lucco in testa e le mani in mano, e un giovane diacono seduto, con la palma del martirio nello mano destra ed un libro nella sinistra.

Ross E. Taggart and George L. McKenna, eds., Handbook of the Collections in The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri, vol. 1, Art of the Occident, 5th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973), 177, (repro.), as Two Seated Figures (recto).  

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