This work consists of multiple parts

Seated Woman with Children (Caritas); branches at top right, ca. 1520?

Blatt: 381 x 259 mm

Physical Description: Brown ink over black pen on paper, distance of chain lines |39|39|30|30|39|

Inventory Number: 3971

Object Number: 3971 Z

Status: Can be presented in the study room of the Graphische Sammlung (special opening hours)

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About the Acquisition

In March 1815, the Frankfurt businessman and banker Johann Friedrich Städel bequeathed his entire fortune and art collection to a foundation which was to be named after him: the 'Städelsches Kunstinstitut'. However, he also dedicated the foundation to the citizens of Frankfurt immaterially, wishing it to be an "adornment and of practical use" to Frankfurt's citizenry. He was thus the first ordinary citizen in the German-speaking region to found a public art museum: the present-day Städel Museum. When he died, his collection comprised 476 paintings, some 4,600 drawings, almost 10,000 printed graphics and valuable books.

Work Data

Basic Information

Title: Seated Woman with Children (Caritas); branches at top right

Draughtsman

Rosso Fiorentino

Verso: Studies of legs, knees and arms

Production Place

Florence?

Period Produced

16th century

School

Object Type

drawing

Physical Description: Brown ink over black pen on paper, distance of chain lines |39|39|30|30|39|

Material

Technique

Geographic Reference

Florentine

Production Reason

figure study

Captions Added Later: Bezeichnet unten links (mit der Feder in Braun): [g/t]uerra; (mit roter Kreide): Michel Angelo; verso oben mittig (mit der Feder in Hellbraun): 4 [R]
Verso oben rechts Stempel des Städelschen Kunstinstituts, Frankfurt am Main (Lugt 2356)

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