drawing
- Museum number
- 1895,0915.552
- Description
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The Holy Family, with the Christ Child climbing onto a pack-saddle; the Virgin Mary supporting him, Joseph at left with a mule and ox behind, two women seated at right with putti above
Pen and brown ink
- Production date
- 1508-1560
- Dimensions
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Height: 275 millimetres
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Width: 423 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- Lit.: J.C. Robinson, 'Descriptive Catalogue of Drawings by the Old Masters, forming the Collection of John Malcolm of Poltalloch, Esq.', London, 1876, no. 115; R.B. Ward, 'A Catalogue of the Drawings by Baccio Bandinelli in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum' (M.A. Report, May 1978, Courtauld Institute, University of London), no. 13; N. Turner, in exhib. cat., BM, 'Florentine drawings of the sixteenth century', 1986, no. 90
Turner, Florentine Drawings of the Sixteenth Century, London, 1986
This is a good example of Bandinelli's more freely drawn composition studies in pen. Even if the motif of the pack-saddle would seem to go back as far as the late fifteenth century, or earlier, there are echoes, for example in the two women attendants on the right, of the figure types of such artists working towards the middle of the century as Bronzino or Salviati. Ward has drawn attention to a group of similar, rapidly executed pen studies of the Holy Family in the Uffizi, e.g. inv. nos 542F, 544F, 547F, 548F recto, 550F, 551F and 1527E.
Literature: JCR 115; Ward, no. 13.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1986, BM, Florentine Drawings 16thC, no. 90
- Acquisition date
- 1895
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1895,0915.552
