Madonna and Child with Angels; verso: Fragment of a Lamentation

c. 1515

Medium	black chalk with white heightenings on brown paper
Dimensions	Overall: 7 7/16 x 6 3/16 in. (18.9 x 15.7 cm)
Object Number	1955.1886
Acquisition	Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status	Off View

Image Caption

Imitator of Fra Bartolomeo, Madonna and Child with Angels; verso: Fragment of a Lamentation, c. 1515, black chalk with white heightenings on brown paper. Clark Art Institute, 1955.1886

Select Bibliography

Haverkamp-Begemann, Egbert, Standish D. Lawder, and Charles W. Talbot, Jr. Drawings from the Clark Art Institute: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Robert Sterling Clark Collection of European and American Drawings, Sixteenth Through Nineteenth Centuries, at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown. 2 volumes. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1964. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Thirty-one: Drawings of the 16th, 17th and 18th Centuries. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: 1965. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. A Selection of Drawings from the Collection of the Clark Art Institute. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: The Clark, 1974.

Provenance

Earl of Arundel (according to annotations on mount); Jonathan Richardson Sr. (L. 2183);* William Roscoe (sale Liverpool, Winstanley, September 23, 1816, no. 88); William Esdaile (L. 2617; sale London, Christie, June 18, 1840, no. 73); Thomas Thane (L. 2461, on reverse in pencil); Colnaghi, London (L. 2057, on mount; bought by Robert Sterling Clark, 1917). *"L." refers to F. Lugt, Les Marques de collections de dessins et d'estampes, Amsterdam, 1921 and Supplément, The Hague, 1956.