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Italian School, Florentine, 16th century
St Andrew and St Nicholas
Pen and ink, brown wash and white heightening over black chalk, on blue paper | 25.2 x 18.0 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 990386
Italian School, Florentine, 16th century
St Andrew and St Nicholas
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A drawing of St Andrew and St Nicholas. The bearded figure of St Andrew stands on the left of the sheet holding the X-shaped cross of his martyrdom. St Nicholas is on the right, wearing vestments and a Bishop's mitre . He holds a crozier in one hand and a book in the other. The drawing is stamped at lower left with the five-pointed star mark associated with Nicholas Lanier (Lugt 2886). It is inscribed in a seventeenth-century hand at lower right: Fra Bartolomeo
Provenance
Nicholas Lanier (?his five-pointed star, Lugt 2886); probably acquired by Charles II
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Medium and techniques
Pen and ink, brown wash and white heightening over black chalk, on blue paper
Measurements
25.2 x 18.0 cm (sheet of paper)
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