drawing
- Museum number
- 1850,1214.202
- Description
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Self-portrait of the artist drawing, half-length turned to left, looking to front
Black and red chalk, heightened with white, on green paper
- Production date
- 17thC
- Dimensions
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Height: 264 millimetres
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Width: 244 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Italian XVIIc.
Traditionally identified as a portrait of Girolamo Rossi by Cantarini. As Nicholas Turner discovered, this comes from a series of portraits of artists assembled by the Florentine collector Gabburri (1676-1742) to illustrate an unpublished collection of artists' biographies ('Vite dei pittori'). On Gabburri's death his drawings collections was acquired by the dealer William Kent and the series of portraits were acquired by Charles Rogers who believed that they had been assembled by the Roman painter Benedetto Luti. Fifteen drawings from the series are in the collection of Lord and Lady St. Levans at St Michael's Mount, Cornwall, others are in the Ashmolean and in the BM: Pp.5.103 (Bernini); 1874,0110.429 (Ranieri del Pace); 1895,0915.585 (Salimbeni); 1901,0417.21 (Poussin); 1921,0342.2 (Cignani); 1934,1001.2 (Bocciardo); and 1934,1001.3 (Botti). A portrait of the writer Berardi by Carlo Dolci (1901,0619.1) also belonged to Rogers and might have wrongly been thought to be a self-portrait of the artist.
Lit.: J.A. Gere, in exhib. cat, BM, 'Portrait Drawings', no.138; N. Turner, 'The Gabburri/ Rogers series of drawn self-portraits and portraits of artists', "Journal of the History of Collections", 5, Number 2, 1993, Appendix II, no. 5, p. 203
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1974 July-Dec, BM, Portrait Drawings, no.138
- Acquisition date
- 1850
- Acquisition notes
- In register as 'Girolamo Rossi, by Simone Cantarini da Pesaro. A Chalk drawing'
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1850,1214.202
