- Museum number
- 1953,1212.2
- Description
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A youth seated on a stool, study for St Martin in the Arrivabene altarpiece; whole-length to left, wearing a hat and holding a book on his lap
Black and white chalk, on light brown prepared paper
- Production date
- 1504
- Dimensions
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Height: 262 millimetres
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Width: 177 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- A study for the figure of St Martin of Tours in the Arrivabene altarpiece, for which a general composition study also exists in the BM (see 1895,0915.606). Two newly discovered studies for the same figure, clothed as a bishop, are in the Antaldi collection in the Biblioteca Oliveriana in Pesaro: see A. Forlani Tempesti and G. Calegari, in exhib. cat., Palazzo Antaldi, Pesaro, 'Da Raffaello a Rossini. La Collezione Antaldi: i disegni ritrovati', 2001, nos. 8 and 9.
Lit.: P. Pouncey and J.A. Gere, 'Italian Drawings in the BM, Raphael and His Circle', London, 1962, I, no. 259 (with previous literature), II, pl. 241; A. Forlani Tempesti, 'Disegni di Raffaello nella collezione Antaldi: un inventario' in M. Piantoni and I. De Rossi (eds), 'Per L'Arte da Venezia All'Europa', Venice (?), 2001, p. 153; G. Moroni, 'Timoteo Viti nell'ambiente artistico urbinate tra Quattrocento e Cinquecento', Urbino, 2007, under no. 4, p. 124 and p. 234
Pouncey & Gere 1962
See 1895,0915.606.
Literature: J. Byam Shaw, OMD, xiii (1938/39). p. 37; Drawings by Old Masters, Royal Academy of Arts, Diploma Gallery, London, 1953, no. 79; A. E. Popham, BMQ, xix (1954), p.11.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1953, London, Royal Academy, 'Drawings by Old Masters', no. 79
1962/3 Nov-Sep, BM, Raphael and his Circle (P+G)
2003/4 Dec-April, BM, NACF exhibition
2016-17, Oct-Jan, Suzhou, 'Italian Renaissance Drawings', no. 30
2019 11 Apr-30 Jun, Macau Museum of Art, Macau, 'Italian Renaissance Drawings'
2021-2022 3 Sept – 20 Feb, Beijing, MWOODS, Italian Renaissance Drawings
- Acquisition date
- 1953
- Acquisition notes
- This item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45. The British Museum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.
Anna Forlani Tempesti suggests that this was in Viti-Antaldi collection.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1953,1212.2
