The 50 plates / Plate 35 of 50
Plate 35 of 50
Kneeling Martyr
Kniender Märtyrer
Florentine School
Not yet located
The drawing
A red-chalk study of a kneeling figure bent deeply forward, the head lowered and arms apparently drawn close to the body. Heavy robes fall in broad, angular folds around the knees and feet. Strong shading emphasizes the figure's bowed posture and the sculptural weight of the drapery.
Becker, 1922
As Felix Becker published it in 1922.
- Attribution
- Florentine School, 16th century
- Title as printed
- Kniender Märtyrer
- Title in English
- Kneeling Martyr
- Date
- 16th century, according to Becker
- Medium and size
- Red chalk, 22.5 × 32 cm
- Inscription
- Unsigned; Grahl collection stamp
- Collection in 1922
- K. W. Hiersemann, Leipzig (formerly A. Grahl, Dresden)
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
- Florentine School, 16th century, as classified by Becker. The martyr is not 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 35.
- No later museum or auction record has been securely identified with this drawing so far.