Property of the Estate of Barbara Piasecka Jo𒆙hnson
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Property of the Estate of Barbara Piaseck🔯a Johnson
ANDREA DEL VERROCCHIO
Florence 1435 - 1488 Venice
DRAPERY STUDY OF A STANDING FIGURE FACING RIGHT, IN PROFILE
Drawn wi⛎th the brush in brown-grey wash, heightened with white, on linen prepared grey-green, laid down on paper;
Numbered in brown ink: XII
282 by 181 mm
Everhard Jabach, his posthumous inventory of 1695 (as D🦩ürer),
t🙈hence by inheritance to his widow Anna Maria de Groote, then probably to their elder son, Everhard Jabach (1658-1721);
acquired by Pierre Crozat, Paris, at ☂an unknown date between 1695 and 1721,
his sale, ꦚParis, 10 April 1741, part of lot 5 (♊catalogued by Pierre Jean Mariette, as Leonardo),
acquired by Jean-Baptiste-François Nourri;
an unidentified black chalk paraphe on the verso of the backing sheet;
Pierre Defer,
thence by inheritance to his son-in-law,🉐 Henr🔴i Dumesnil (L.739),
his sale, Paris, 🎀10-12 May 1🌸900, lot 251 (as Leonardo);
Comtesse Martine Marie-Pol de Béhague;
Marquis Hubert de Ganay;
Marquis Jean Louis de Ganay,
his sale, Monaco, Sotheby's, 1 December 1989, lot 74 (as Leonardoღ),
acquired at the sale by Barbara Piasecka Joh💜nson, Princeton, NJ
B. Berenson, The Drawings of the Florentine Painters, Chicago ﷺ1938, vol. I, p. 62, vol. II, no. 1071D, vol. III, fig. 527 (as Leonardo);
K. Clark, Leonardo da Vinci, Cambridge 1939, p. 12, under note𓂃 1 (as Leonardo);
B. Berenson, I Disegni dei Pittori Fiorentini, Milan 1961, vol. I, p. 103, vol. II, p. 212, no. 107𝄹1D, vol. III, fig. 446 (as Leonardo);
C. Ragghianti and G. D. Regoli, Disegni dal Modello, Pisa 1975, p. 31, under note 10 (as Leonardo);
G. D. Regoli, ‘Il piegar de’panni’, Critica d’Arte, XXII, November-December 1976, p. 36, no. 150, fig. 1, pp. 47-48, under note 16 (mention🐻s de Ganay group and attributes them to Leonardo);
A. Vezzosi and C. Pedretti, La Raccolta Leonardesca della Contessa de Béhague, Vinci 1980, p. 18, fig. 1 (as Leonardo);
A. Vezzosi and C. Pedretti, Leonardo’s Return to Vinci, The Countess of Béhague Collection, New York 1981, p. 20, fig. 1 (as Leonardo);
J. Cadogan, ‘Linen Drapery Studies by Verrocchio, Leonardo and Ghirlandaio’, Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, vol. 46, 1983, p. 59, fig. 27, reproduced ♓(as📖 Leonardo);
Leonardo da Vinci, exhib. cat., London, South Bank Cen🧸tre, 1989, p. 50, under🍨 cat. no. 3 (as Leonardo);
D. Scrase, ‘Paris and Lille, Leonardo: Italian Drawings’, The Burlington Magazine, February 1990, p. 151-153 (as Leonardo);
K. Christiansen, ‘Leonardo drapery studies’, The Burlington Magazine, August 1990, p. 572 (as Verrocchio);
D.A. Brown, Leonardo da Vinci: Origins of a Genius, London ꦗ1998 (discusses 🌟the group exhibited in 1989 and attributes it to Verrocchio and his Workshop);
P. Marani, Leonardo una carriera di pittore, Milan 1999 (as Verrocchio and his Workshop);
B. Py, Everhard Jabach, collectionneur (1618-1695), Paris 2001, pp. 20, 274;
Leonardo da Vinci, Master Draftsman, exhib. cat., New Yꦉork, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2003, pp. 116 and 119, under not💃e 18, p. 285, under no. 15;
Leonard de Vinci. Dessins et manuscrits,ꦅ exhib. cat., Paris, Louvre, 2003, p. 56, under note𒊎 7, p. 64 under no. 7, p. 57 and note 18 (as Leonardo);
B. Py, 'Everhard Jabach: Supplement of Identifiable Drawings from the 1695 Estate Inventory', Master Drawings, vol. XLV, no. 1, 2007 p. 6, and p. 36, note 15;
A. Gauthier, ‘From Crozat to The Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rennes: The Origins of the Drawings Collection of the Marquis De Robien’, Master Drawings, vol. XLV, no. 1, 2007, p. 95;
L. Bicart-Sée, 'Some Archival References for Jean-Baptiste- François Nourri', Master Drawings, vol. XLV, no. 1, 2007 p. 88;
G. Aubert, ‘From Crozat to the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rennes: The Origins of the Drawings Collection of the Marquis De Robien,’ Master Drawings, vol. XLV, no. 1, 2007, p. 95;
C. Bambach, Leonardo da Vinci Rediscovered, 4 vols., New Haven/London 2019, vol. 4, p. 105, noteꦰ 410 (as 'anonymous artist in Verrocchio's workshop');
L. Franck et al., Léonard de Vinci, exhib. cat., Paris, Musée du🔯 Louvre, 2019-20, p. 38 (as part of a group of works by either Leonardo da Vinci or Verrocchio)
Florence, Biblioteca Laurenziana, Leonardo da Vinci, Mostra di disegni, manoscritti e documenti, 1952, no. 10 (as Leonardo);
Vinci, et al., La Raccolta Leonardesca della Contessa de Béhague, 1980-81 (as Leonardo);
Paris, Louvre, Leonard de Vinci: Dessins et manuscrits, 1989-ౠ1990, (ca🐓talogue by Françoise Viatte), no. 11 (as Leonardo);
Warsaw, The Royal Castle, The Masters of Drawing, Drawings from the Barbara Piasecka Johnson Collection, 2010-11, pp. 100-101, reproꦯduced p. 101 (as Leonardo♐);
Florence, Palazzo Strozzi, Verrocchio, Master of Leonardo, 2019, no. 9.6 (as Verrocchio)