- Museum number
- 1946,0713.212
- Description
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A young man standing to front, looking down, holding a staff
Pen and brown ink, on buff prepared paper
- Production date
- 1450-1477
- Dimensions
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Height: 234 millimetres
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Width: 104 millimetres
- Curator's comments
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Popham and Pouncey's suggestion that this is Ferrarese seems more probable than Luigi Grassi's attribution to Niccolò Alunno. (1420/30-1502), a painter from Foligno whose few drawings recall those of Benozzo Gozzoli (compare, for example, the two in Berlin, F. Todini and S. Innamorati, 'Niccolò Alunno e la sua bottega', Perugia, 2004, nos. IV.83-4, pp. 621-3). Bracci, who describes the drawing as showing St Roch, rejects the attribution to Cossa without giving any clue as to his thoughts on who it might be by.
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Lit.: A.E. Popham, 'Catalogue of Drawings in the Collection formed by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bart., F.R.S., now in the possession of his Grandson, T. Fitzroy Phillipps Fenwick of Thirlestaine House, Cheltenham', I, London, 1935, p. 5, no. 3 (as Vincenzo Foppa); A.E. Popham and P. Pouncey, 'Italian drawings in the BM, the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries', London, 1950, I, no. 42, II, pl. XI (with previous literature); L. Grassi, 'Il disegno italiano dal Trecento al Seicento', Rome, 1956, p. 71 (as Niccolò Alunno); L. Grassi, 'I disegni italiani del Trecento e Quattrocento: scuole fiorentina, senese, marchigiana, umbra', Venice, n.d [1960?], no. 95 (as Niccolò Alunno); A. Bracci, 'Per il Cossa disegnatore', "Paragone", XXXVII, 431-3, Jan-March 1986, p. 27, n. 3
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Popham & Pouncey 1950
In the Fenwick Catalogue tentatively ascribed to Foppa, this drawing appears rather to be Ferrarese. The structure of the face and in particular the slightly protruding eyelids call to mind Cossa's types. The quality is perhaps just good enough to allow of its being placed under his name. If not by Cossa it might be an early work by Roberti.
Literature: Fenwick Catalogue, p. 5, no. 3, pl. VI.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1946
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1946,0713.212