Francisco de Zurbarán, ehemals zugeschrieben, Zeichner
Nach links gewandter Mann mit Buch, Frühes 17. Jahrhundert
This figure stretches out his hands holding a piece of drapery. The head, which is more faintly rendered than the clothes, turns to look up. Such positioning suggested to Alfonso Pérez Sánchez that this could be a study for Saint Simon Stock, who received the scapular (the brown overgarment worn by Carmelites as part of their habit) directly from the Virgin. He noted in the Corpus volume that: “In 1966, the Hamburg Exhibition Catalogue maintained, erroneously, that the saint holds a book in his hand. However, there seems to be no doubt that this is the cloth of a scapulary [sic].”[1] Once again, this drawing is to be understood as a drapery study of a model who has been asked to take up the pose of a saint, either Saint Simon Stock (as Pérez Sánchez suggests) or, say, Saint Didacus of Alcalá, the Franciscan who is usually shown gathering up his habit or friar's scapular before him to carry bread that miraculously turns into flowers. As stated above, the model appears to be the same as in at least two of the other drawings on blue paper (see inv. nos. 38640 and 38638, cat. nos.179 and 180).
Gabriele Finaldi
1. Angulo Iniguez and Pérez Sánchez 1985, 59.
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Beschriftung fremd: Auf dem Verso nummeriert: "82" (Bleistift, unterstrichen, um 180 Grad gedreht)
[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. 181
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. 216
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. 264
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. LXVII, Abb.-Nr. , Kat.-Nr. 235
Spanische Kunst von Greco bis Goya, Hugo Kehrer, 1926, S. 219-221, Abb.-Nr.