The 50 plates / Plate 28 of 50
Plate 28 of 50
Seated Church Father
Sitzender Kirchenlehrer
Paduan School
Not yet located
The drawing
A haloed, bearded church scholar sits facing forward in flowing robes, holding an open book across his lap and raising a quill in his right hand. The carefully shaded drapery and solemn expression give the figure a sculptural quality characteristic of early Renaissance Italian drawing.
Becker, 1922
As Felix Becker published it in 1922.
- Attribution
- Paduan School, c. 1460
- Title as printed
- Sitzender Kirchenlehrer
- Title in English
- Seated Church Father
- Date
- c. 1460, according to Becker
- Medium and size
- Brown brush, heightened with white, on canvas, 34 × 23.2 cm
- Collection in 1922
- Julius Böhler jun., Munich
Today
Modern cataloguing and the drawing’s whereabouts, as far as they are known.
- Status
- Not yet located
- Where is it now?
- Not yet located. No post-Becker museum or auction record has been securely identified with this drawing.
- Attribution today
- Paduan School, c. 1460, as classified by Becker. The figure is not securely identified as a particular saint, and no subsequent attribution to a named artist has been verified.
The sheet in this copy
Sources
- Felix Becker, Handzeichnungen alter Meister in Privatsammlungen (Leipzig, 1922), plate 28.
- No later museum or auction record has been securely identified with this drawing so far.