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Artist: Unknown Artist (Italian, -)
Medium: red chalk on paper
Dimensions: 7 15/16 in. x 10 3/8 in. (20.2 cm. x 26.35 cm.)
Credit Line: Bequest of the Honorable James ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ III
Accession Number: 1811.38
- "No. 61 Il Portoguise"
Type: inscription
Location: verso of former mount (lost)
Materials: pen and ink (?)
- 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)
- Nature Inhabited
- ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ College Museum of Art. ( 4/20/1995 - 6/4/1995)
Type: catalogue Author: Henry Johnson Document Title: Catalogue of the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ College Art Collections Publ. Place: Brunswick, Maine Reference: no. 44 Remarks: (as "Il Portoguise") Section Title: Pt. I, The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ Drawinga 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. 44 Remarks: (as "Il Portoguise" Publisher: ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ College Section Title: Descriptive Catalogue of the . . . Date: 1930 Author: M. Benisovich Document Title: Gazette des Beaux-Arts, ser. 6, vol. 45 Location: pp. 113-116 Reference: repr. fig. 1 Remarks: (as Quillard) Section Title: "Quillard aux États-Unis -- Une Découverte" Date: 1955 Author: M. Eidelberg Document Title: Master Drawings, vol. 19, no. 1 Location: p. 37 Remarks: (as Vieira) Section Title: "Quillard as Draughtsman" Date: 1981 Type: exhibition catalogue Author: David P. Becker Document Title: Old Master Drawings at ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ College Publ. Place: Brunswick, Maine Location: pp. 172-173 Reference: 80 (illus.) Publisher: ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ College Date: 1985 Type: exhibition catalogue Author: Julia W. Vicinus Document Title: Nature Inhabited Publ. Place: Brunswick, Maine Location: p. 12 Reference: no. 6 Publisher: ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ College Date: 1995
With BCMA 1811.37, this drawing was attributed in 1955 by Michel Benisovich to the French artist Pierre Antoine Quillard. Both sheets were then given to Francisco Vieira the Younger by Martin Eidelberg in 1981. The two ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ sheets, though bearing similar old inscriptions to "Il Portoguise," are almost certainly by different artists. They both do, however, probably originate in Rome during the early eighteenth century in the large circle of followers and imitators of Carlo Maratti.
The subject of this sheet seems unusual in itself and has not been explained. The purported existence of a painting by Quillard of three figures in a garden with a snake, reported by Benisovich, has been discounted by Eidelberg.1 The pastoral garden scene has undoubtedly led to the sheet's placement within eighteenth-century French art such as that epitomized by Watteau, but such subjects do turn up in Italy, especially in the work of such later artists as Hubert Robert and even Giovanni Battista Piranesi. The old Italian inscription lends some support to an Italian origin for these two drawings.
1. Eidelberg 1981, p. 37, n. 11.
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).