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Artist: Lodovico Gimignani (Italian, 1643-1697)
Medium: black chalk and grey wash on brown laid paper
Dimensions: 10 13/16 in. x 8 13/16 in. (27.5 cm. x 22.4 cm.)
Credit Line: Bequest of the Honorable James ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ III
Accession Number: 1811.16
- fragment of initials IHS with cross within circle
Type: watermark
Location:
Materials: - "No. 28 Chero Ferri"
Type: inscription
Location: verso of former mount
Materials:
- James ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ III( Collector, Boston) - 1811.
- ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ College Museum of Art( Museum, Brunswick, Maine) 1811- . Bequest
- Old Master Drawings at ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ College
- ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ College Museum of Art. ( 5/17/1985 - 7/7/1985)
- Clark Art Institute. ( 9/14/1985 - 10/27/1985)
- University of Kansas. ( 1/19/1986 - 3/2/1986)
- Art Gallery of Ontario. ( 5/17/1986 - 6/29/1986)
- Drawing on Basics
- ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ College Museum of Art. ( 10/14/1993 - 12/19/1993)
Type: catalogue Author: Henry Johnson Document Title: Catalogue of the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ College Art Collections Publ. Place: Brunswick, Maine Reference: no. 25 Remarks: (as Ferri) Section Title: Pt. I, The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ Drawings Date: 1885 Type: catalogue Author: ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ College Museum of Art Document Title: ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ Museum of Fine Arts, Walker Art Building Edition: 4th Publ. Place: Brunswick, Maine Reference: no. 25 Remarks: (as Ferri) Publisher: ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ College Section Title: Descriptive Catalogue of the . . . Date: 1930 Author: U. V. Fischer Pace Document Title: Disegni di Giacinto e Ludovico Gimignani Publ. Place: Rome Location: pp. 122-123 Reference: under cat. no. 402, repr. fig. 119 Remarks: (as Gimignani) Section Title: nelle collezioni del Gabinetto Nazionale delle Stampe Date: 1979 Type: exhibition catalogue Author: David P. Becker Document Title: Old Master Drawings at ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ College Publ. Place: Brunswick, Maine Location: pp. 148-149 Reference: no. 69 (illus.) Publisher: ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ College Date: 1985
Traditionally attributed to Ciro Ferri, this sheet was recognized by Jacob Bean in 1963 as the work of another Roman, Ludovico Gimignani. He was trained by his father, Giacinto, and studied in Venice for a period under the patronage of his godfather, Giulio Rospigliosi, later Pope Clement IX. Ludovico spent his career entirely in Rome, painting palace decorations and commissions for several churches. He was elected to the Accademia di San Luca in 1672 and became its head in 1688—1689. By far the largest group of Gimignani's drawings — some 722 sheets — is in the Gabinetto Nazionale delle Stampe in Rome.1 A drawn portrait of him by Giulio Solimena is in the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm.2
Ursula Fischer Pace has identified a pendant to the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ drawing, a depiction of the Finding of Moses, in the Gabinetto Nazionale.3 It is identical in format, technique, and style but has an attached decorative frame of satyrs, nymphs, and ornament. The frame also includes the device of the Rospigliosi family, leading Fischer Pace to date the sheet to within Clement IX's reign, from 1667 to 1669. Her dating to this point fairly early in Gimignani's career is reinforced by her stylistic comparison of this drawing to two other sheets, in Rome and Düsseldorf, which are studies for paintings datable to 1670.4 She judges the purpose of the two scenes from the life of Moses to be strictly private and knows of no final work for which the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ and Rome sheets would have been studies. The story of the miraculous manna which fed the Israelites in their flight from Egypt is told in Exodus 16:4-36.
David P. Becker
1. Fully catalogued in Fischer Pace 1979.
2. Repr. ibid., p. 36.
3. Ibid., p. 122, cat. no. 402, repr. The author states that Eric Schleier brought the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ sheet to her attention.
4. The drawings are repr. ibid., cat. no. 88 (Rome), and fig. 40 (Düsseldorf). The two paintings are repr. ibid., figs. 38 and 41 .
Commentary credited to David P. Becker (or not otherwise captioned) appeared in his catalogue Old Master Drawings at ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ College (Brunswick: ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ College Museum of Art, 1985).