Kneeling Hermit and Two Draped Figures Contemplating a Skull

Provenance

(Galerie de Bayser, Paris). The Horvitz Collection, Boston, 1995 (mark verso, H in a diamond, not in Lugt)(inv. no. D-I-77); (his sale, Sotheby's New York, 23 January 2008, no. 10, unsold); gift to the NGA, 2016.

Kneeling Hermit and Two Draped Figures Contemplating a Skull

Bandini, Giovanni

1570s?

Accession Number

2016.180.1

Medium

pen with brown ink and touches of red chalk (at lower left) on laid paper, laid down on old mount

Dimensions

sheet: 36.9 × 27.5 cm (14 1/2 × 10 13/16 in.)

Classification

Drawing

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

Gift of Jeffrey Horvitz