Francisco de Zurbarán, ehemals zugeschrieben
Nach links gewandter Heiliger, mit erhobener Rechter segnend, Frühes 17. Jahrhundert
The primary purpose of this drawing is the study of the form of the large cloak that envelopes the figure and the fall of light upon it. It would appear, like all the others in this group, to have been drawn from a live model. Indeed, the same model who, here, takes up the pose of a blessing saint or religious figure, seems to reappear in several other drawings, certainly in inv. nos. 38640 and 38645 (cat. nos. 179 and 181). His profile was initially drawn a little lower and to the left, but this attempt was abandoned in favor of the final, more finished, and slightly smaller head. The use of blue prepared paper in Spanish seventeenth-century drawings is uncommon.
Gabriele Finaldi
Details about this work
[José Atanasio Echeverría]; Julian Benjamin Williams, Seville (d. 1866); John Wetherell (?) (d. 1865); Horatio/Nathan Wetherell (?) (until 1874); Frederick William Cosens, London (from 1874 to 1890); Sotheby's, London, auction of the property of Frederick William Cosens (from November 11 to 21, 1890); Bernard Quaritch Ltd., London (from November 1890 to July 1891); acquired by the Hamburger Kunsthalle (July 14, 1891).
The Spanish Gesture. Drawings from Murillo to Goya in the Hamburger Kunsthalle, Jens Hoffmann-Samland, with contributions by María Cruz de Carlos Varona, Gabriele Finaldi, José Manuel Matilla u. a., 2014, S. 258, Abb., Abb.-Nr. , Kat.-Nr. 180
La colección de dibujos españoles en el Museo de Hamburgo, August Liebmann Mayer, 1920, S. 132-133, Abb.-Nr.
Die Spanischen Handzeichnungen in der Hamburger Kunsthalle zu Hamburg, August Liebmann Mayer, 1918, S. 115, Abb.-Nr.
Spanische Zeichnungen von El Greco bis Goya, Wolf Stubbe; Hamburger Kunsthalle, 1966, Abb.-Nr. , Kat.-Nr. 209
El dibujo español de los Siglos de Oro, Pérez Sánchez; Ministerio de Cultura, Dirección General del Patrimonio Artístico, Archivos y Museos, 1980, Abb.-Nr. , Kat.-Nr. 266
A Corpus of Spanish Drawings, vol. III Seville School 1600 to 1650, Angulo Íñiguez and Pérez Sánchez; Herausgeber: Harvey Miller Publisher, 1985, Abb. S. pl. LXVIII, Abb.-Nr. , Kat.-Nr. 237
Spanische Kunst von Greco bis Goya, Hugo Kehrer, 1926, S. 219-221, Abb.-Nr.