Mercury

c. 1500

Medium	metalpoint, brush and gray ink, heightened with white, on light grayish-brown prepared paper
Dimensions	Overall: 9 1/4 x 7 3/16 in. (23.5 x 18.3 cm)
Object Number	1955.1459
Acquisition	Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status	Off View

Image Caption

After Perugino (Pietro di Cristoforo Vannucci), Mercury, c. 1500, metalpoint, brush and gray ink, heightened with white, on light grayish-brown prepared paper. Clark Art Institute, 1955.1459

Select Bibliography

Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Fifteen: Italian Paintings and Drawings. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1961. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Thirty-one: Drawings of the 16th, 17th and 18th Centuries. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: 1965. S. Arthur Strong.. Drawings by the Old Masters in the Collection of the Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery.. London.. 1902.. Oskar Fischel.. "Die Zeichnungen der Umbrer," Part II.. Jahrbuch der königlich preussischen Kunstsammlungen, Beiheft zum 38. Band. Berlin.. 1917.. Gnoli, Umberto. Pietro Perugino. Spoleto: Claudio Argentieri. 1923. Lionello Venturi.. Il Perugino, gli affreschi del Collegio del Cambio.. Edizione Radio Italiana. n.p.. (1955?).. Crifo, Nicole Dacos. Il collegia del Cambio a Perugia. Milan: Amilcare Pizzi. 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.

Provenance

Fra Sebastiano Resta, Milan (L. 2981; Resta Number: g. 117);* G. M. Marchetti, Arezzo; John Lord Somers, London (L. 2981); Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery, Wilton House; Colnaghi, London (bought by Robert Sterling Clark, 1919). *"L." refers to F. Lugt, Les Marques de collections de dessins et d'estampes, Amsterdam, 1921 and Supplément, The Hague, 1956.