Francesco FONTEBASSO
Four Studies of Hands
Medium Black chalk, White chalk, Blue paper
Dimension 41 x 26.3 cm (16¹/₈ x 10³/₈ inches)
Similar studies of hands, sometimes juxtaposed with studies of heads, are also found in other drawings by Fontebasso; one such example is in the Szépmuvèszeti Muzeum in Budapest and another, from the collection of Giancarlo Baroni, was on the art market in New York in 1995. Analogous studies of hands, although in pen and ink, appear on a drawing by Fontebasso in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
Black chalk, heightened with touches of white chalk, on blue paper, backed.
Medium: Black chalk, White chalk, Blue paper
Dimension: 41 x 26.3 cm (16¹/₈ x 10³/₈ inches)
Provenance: Dr. Carl Robert Rudolf, London
His posthumous sale, London, Sotheby’s, 4 July 1977, lot 144 (as attributed to Georg Anton Urlaub)
Pietro Scarpa, Venice
Mia Weiner, New York, in 1985
Acquired from her in 1990 by John O’Brien, Charles Town, West Virginia (Lugt 4230).
Literature: Marina Magrini, Francesco Fontebasso: I disegni, Saggi e memorie di storia dell’arte, 1990, p.184, no.113 (not illustrated).
Exhibition: New York, Mia Weiner at Piero Corsini, Inc., Old Master Drawings, 1985, not numbered.
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