DrawingsItalian15th century

Four Standing Apostles

c. 1495-1496

Artists

Perugino (Pietro Vannucci)Artist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Brown ink, black chalk and white gouache, incised, on buff prepared antique laid paper, laid down to heavily textured buff antique laid paper

Culture

Italian

Century

15th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

29 x 22.5 cm (11 7/16 x 8 7/8 in.)

Provenance

[Hôtel Drouot, Paris, France, 16 May 1923, lot. 81], sold. Jacques Auguste Boussac, sold; [Sotheby's, London, 9 July 1924, lot 178]. Mrs. Jesse Isidor Straus, New York; gift, to Fogg Art Museum, 1926.

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