drawing
- Museum number
- 1910,0611.5
- Description
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A monumental statue of a boy removing a thorn from his foot, with three Roman soldiers at the base of the pedestal, 1552
Pen and black ink, with grey wash, heightened with white, on two sheets of purple-brown prepared paper
- Production date
- 1552
- Dimensions
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Height: 388 millimetres
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Width: 235 millimetres (top arched;max)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See Geissler, Deutsche Zeichner, vol. I, no. A31. The monogram HB has nothing to do with Brosamer, or with Hans Bocksberger I and II. Possibly by a Swiss artist. It could be in the same hand as a drawing of soldiers in classical dress, signed 'HB 1560' in the École des Beaux- Arts, Paris (donation Masson, Nr.38). The pose of the boy derives from the Spinario, a celebrated antique bronze conserved in the Capitoline Museums, Rome.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1979/80 Nov-Jan, Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, 'Drawing in Germany', no. A31
2000/1 Oct-Jan, Paris, Louvre, 'D'apres l'Antique'
- Acquisition date
- 1910
- Acquisition notes
- Acquired from Obach & Co in exchange for duplicates; Obach bought for the BM at the Lanna sale.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1910,0611.5