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Filippino Lippi

Two Angels Carrying Torches, c. 1501

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink and brown wash on laid paper, pricked for transfer

Dimensions

overall (maximum measurement): 17.5 x 12.6 cm (6 7/8 x 4 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Woodner Collection, Patrons' Permanent Fund

Accession Number

1991.190.1.g

Artists / Makers

Filippino Lippi (artist) Florentine, 1457 - 1504

The "Chief Framer" (artist) Italian, 1500 - 1600

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Provenance

Giorgio Vasari [1511-1574]; Niccolò Gaddi [d. 1591]; possibly Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel; probably William Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Devonshire [1672-1729]; by descent, Chatsworth (inv.no.960) (sale, London, Christie's, 3 July 1984, lot 46); purchased by Ian Woodner, New York; by inheritance to his daughters, Andrea and Dian Woodner, New York, 1990; purchased by NGA, 1991.

Associated Names

Chatsworth House Trust
Christie, Manson & Woods, Ltd.
Devonshire, William Cavendish, 2nd Duke of
Gaddi, Niccolò
Howard, 2nd earl of Arundel, Thomas
Vasari, Giorgio
Woodner Family Collection, Inc., Ian, The
Woodner, Ian

Exhibition History

1930: Italian Drawings Exhibited at the Royal Academy, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1930, no. 50 (recto only).

1949: Old Master Drawings from Chatsworth, Arts Council of Great Britain, London, 1949, no. 10.

1962: Old Master Drawings from Chatsworth: A Loan Exhibition from the Devonshire Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. and elsewhere, 1962-63, no. 36.

1969: Old Master Drawings from Chatsworth: A Loan Exhibition from the Devonshire Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1969, no. 36.

1973: Old Master Drawings from Chatsworth: A Loan Exhibition from the Devonshire Collection, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1973-74, no. 36.

1985: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, 1985, no. 76 (checklist only).

1986: Dibujos de los siglos XIV al XX: Colección Woodner, Museo del Prado, Madrid, 1986-87, no. 29.

1986: Meisterzeichnungen aus Sechs Jahrhunderten: Die Sammlung Ian Woodner, Haus der Kunst, Munich and Vienna, 1986, no. 24.

1987: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1987, no. 22.

1990: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1990, no. 29.

1995: The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995-1996, no. 9.

1997: The Drawings of Filippino Lippi and his Circle, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1997-1998, nos. 6, 51, 64, 66, 79, 80, 84, 107, 108, 117.

2000: Art for the Nation: Collecting for a New Century, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2000-2001, 132-135.

2000: Sandro Botticelli, Der Bilderzyklus zu Dantes Göttlicher Komödie. Kulturforum, Berlin; Scuderie Papali al Quirinale, Rome; Royal Academy, London, 2000-2001, 364, 365 (.1.a only, as Botticelli) (shown only in Berlin).

Bibliography

2011: Cammarota, Gian Piero, et al. "La pala di Filippino Lippi per la Cappella Casali in San Domenico a Bologna," Bollettino d'Arte, serie VII, fasc. 10 (April-June 2011): 128, 129, 131, 132, 137 note 19, fig. 8.

2013: Schenck, Kimberly, et al. "A Page from Giorgio Vasari's Libro de' Disegni as Composite Object." Facture 1 (2013): 2, 25, 26, 27, 28, fig. 21 (color).