Martyrium des Heiligen Jakobus

Title

Martyrium des Heiligen Jakobus

Draughtsman

• Domenichino ?

Period Produced

• 17th century

School

• Baroque

Object Type

• drawing

Material

• ink?
• Indian ink?
• red chalk
• chalk?
• coal?
• Vergé paper

Technique

• pen drawing
• brush drawing
• red chalk drawing
• pencil drawing
• chalk drawing?
• charcoal drawing?
• squaring

Geographic Reference

• Bolognese

Production Reason

• figure study
• movement study
• composition study

Captions Added Later

Auf dem Montierungsbogen unten rechts Stempel einer nicht identifizierten Sammlung; verso Stempel des Städelschen Kunstinstituts, Frankfurt am Main (Lugt 2356), mit zugehöriger Inventarnummer

Watermark

• Wappen

Institution

• Städel Museum

Departement

• Department of Prints and Drawings

Collection

• Städelsches Kunstinstitut

Creditline

Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main

Picture Copyright

Public Domain

Genre

• historical narration
• depiction of a saint

Persons Shown

• Saint James the Greater

Associated Persons and Institutions

• Jacobus de Voragine

Illustrated Passage

• Die Legenda aurea des Jacobus de Voragine, übersetzt von Richard Benz, Heidelberg 1984

Primary

• 73F243 martyrdom and death of James

Alternative Attribution

• Domenichino draughtsman; declined, by note on mount