St. Joseph
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Material / Technique
Dimensionsh x w: Mått 28,2 x 17,9 cm
Inventory numberNMH 1083/1863
AcqusitionTransferred 1866 from Kongl. Museum (Carl Gustaf Tessin)
Other titlesTitel (sv): S:t Josef Titel (en): St. Joseph Titel i inventariet (sv): Knäböjande man med handen på bröstet
DescriptionDescription: Laid down. Numbered at lower right in pen and brown ink: 911 (Sparre) and 57 (struck out). Preparatory study for the Nativity, painted on a garden wall in the convent of S. Margherita in Arezzo. Commissioned by Pier gentile Fucci from Città di Castello on 4 September 1542. Destroyed during World War II. Härb has identified a study for the entire composition, formerly in the collection of Michael Gand and sold at auction Monaco in 1987. Our drawing belongs to a different category of drawings, a precise study for the figure of St. Joseph. Identified as a work of Vasari by Lawrence Turĉic, an attribution confirmed by Anna Forlani Tempesti, Catherine Goguel and Konrad Oberhuber. Our sheet can be compared with other early black chalk drawings, all from the Uffizi. [Bjurström, It. Drawings, cat. no. 1187]
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Geographical origin
MaterialPaper, Black chalk (Crayon)