drawing
- Museum number
- 1895,0915.1405
- Description
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St Peter, after Perugino; whole-length, standing to front looking up with left arm raised, holding a key in his right hand
Brush drawing in brown wash, heightened with white (partly oxidised), on light brown prepared paper, silhouetted
- Production date
- 1465-1523 (?)
- Dimensions
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Height: 206 millimetres
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Width: 117 millimetres (sheet)
- Curator's comments
- Copy after St Peter in the 'Ascension' at Lyons (P. Scarpellini, 'Perugino', Milan, 1984, p. 202, fig.124).
Lit.: J.C. Robinson, 'Descriptive Catalogue of Drawings by the Old Masters, forming the Collection of John Malcolm of Poltalloch, Esq.', London, 1876, Appendix I, no. 28; A.E. Popham and P. Pouncey, 'Italian drawings in the BM, the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries', London, 1950, I, no. 199 (with previous literature)
Popham & Pouncey 1950
The drawing was formerly mounted in an album which also contained a series of apostles of the Paduan School (nos. 312 to 325 below), a series of two prophets and ten sibyls by Girolamo di Benvenuto (nos. 74 to 85 above), and three drawings of apostles after the Master F. V. B. (1895,0915.1402 to 1404).
The figure corresponds with that of S. Peter in the pictures of the 'Ascension' at Lyons (K. der K. 50) and at Sansepolcro (K. der K. 64). As can be deduced from the bit of drapery of a figure to the 1., the sheet is a fragment of a copy of at least a group from the composition. The style of brush-drawing differs from that of Perugino's school and suggests, perhaps, the environment of Gaudenzio Ferrari.
Literature: JCR, App. i, 31.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1895
- Acquisition notes
- Anonymous Italian collector, '1617' inscribed on first leaf of album from which this and other drawings were removed.
Popham & Pouncey 1950
Anon. Italian collector, 1617 (cf. 1895,0915.1390-1401)
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1895,0915.1405
