Studies for Christ Giving a New Heart to Saint Catherine of Siena (recto); God the Father in the Air with Arms Outstretched (verso) Artist: Francesco Vanni (Italian, 1564–1610)

ca. 1580s

Prints and Drawings

By appointment, Duffy Study Room

There are several paintings in Vanni’s oeuvre for which this image might have been preparatory: it is close, for example, to a figure of God the Father in the Annunciation in Santa Maria dei Servi in Siena, commissioned in 1586.

Medium

Black chalk

Dimensions

sheet: 6 5/8 × 8 15/16 in. (16.8 × 22.7 cm)

Credit Line

Frederick M. Clapp, B.A. 1901, M.A. 1911, Fund

Accession Number

2010.37.1

Geography

Made in Italy

Culture

Italian

Period

16th century

Classification

Drawings

Disclaimer

Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of records is ongoing.

Provenance
John Pope-Henessey; Michael Hall
Bibliography
  • John J. Marciari et al., Francesco Vanni: Art in Late Renaissance Siena, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2013), 13, 33, 40, 50, 63–66, 104, no. 6
  • "Acquisitions," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin: Online Supplement (accessed 2012), 54, recto and verso illustrated, ill
  • Sue Welsh Reed and Richard Wallace, Italian Etchers of the Renaissance and Baroque, exh. cat. (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1989), 103, 104, fig. 48
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Marks

Watermark: siren in circle, no exact match, but Briquet 13880-13895, all sirens in a circle, are Italian 1490s to 1590s

Inscriptions

Verso, toward the left, a column of numbers

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