Saint Anthony Abbot

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Title: Saint Anthony Abbot [drawing] : as a hermit, feeding a pear to a swine
Inscriptions: Inscribed in upper right corner, in pen and brown ink: '1605 / jan int / Baay'; numbered at lower middle, in pen and black ink: 'n° 31' and '1309'; on verso of backing paper: numbered, in graphite: '45' and '370'; inscribed: 'Artistes Siennois' and 'Vania' and 'F. Vania'

Collation: 1 drawing : Pen and brown ink, partly over red chalk, traces of an underdrawing in black chalk, heightened with white gouache (laid down) ; 237 x 180 mm

Note: Annotated on the mount, in graphite: 'not Spranger (T. Gerszi)'. Another version attributed to an imitator of Bartholomeus Spranger is kept in the Kupferstichkabinett of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (inv. C 7140)

Biliographic reference: T. Ketelsen, O. Hahn & P. Kuhlmann-Hodick (eds.), Zeichnen im Zeitalter Bruegels. Die Niederländischen Zeichnungen des 16. Jahrhunderts im Dresdner Kupferstich-Kabinett - Beiträge zu einer Typologie, p. 320; S. Metzler, Bartholomeus Spranger. Splendor and Eroticism in Imperial Prague, New York (The Metropolitan Musuem of Art) 2014-2015, p. 351 (suggested attribution: after Abraham Bloemaert)

Copy (note): S.II 134567; Mark of William Esdaile (Lugt 2617) in pen and brown ink

Form/genre

Iconclass: 11H(ANTONY ABBOT)2 The hermit Antony Abbot (Antonius Abbas) of Egypt, also called the Great; possible attributes: bell, book, T-shaped staff, flames, pig - early life of male saint

ISBD: See ISBD format; Saint Anthony Abbot [drawing] : as a hermit, feeding a pear to a swine. - [s.a.]. - 1 drawing : Pen and brown ink, partly over red chalk, traces of an underdrawing in black chalk, heightened with white gouache (laid down) ; 237 x 180 mm. - Annotated on the mount, in graphite: 'not Spranger (T. Gerszi)'. Another version attributed to an imitator of Bartholomeus Spranger is kept in the Kupferstichkabinett of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (inv. C 7140). - T. Ketelsen, O. Hahn & P. Kuhlmann-Hodick (eds.), Zeichnen im Zeitalter Bruegels. Die Niederländischen Zeichnungen des 16. Jahrhunderts im Dresdner Kupferstich-Kabinett - Beiträge zu einer Typologie, p. 320; S. Metzler, Bartholomeus Spranger. Splendor and Eroticism in Imperial Prague, New York (The Metropolitan Musuem of Art) 2014-2015, p. 351 (suggested attribution: after Abraham Bloemaert). - S.II 134567. Mark of William Esdaile (Lugt 2617) in pen and brown ink. - M. Houthakker, Amsterdam; acquired in 1911.