The 50 plates / Plate 36 of 50
Plate 36 of 50
Before Castelfranco
Vor Castelfranco
Attributed to Giorgione
In a museum
The drawing
A red-chalk landscape depicting Castel San Zeno at Montagnana, with crenellated walls, towers, and an arched bridge rising beyond a broad expanse of countryside. In the right foreground, a solitary seated figure rests with head bowed beside a grassy bank. Becker identified the location as Castelfranco, but in 1978 the Centro Studi Castelli di Montagnana identified the setting as Montagnana. The delicate reddish tones and atmospheric shading create a quiet, contemplative scene.
Becker, 1922
As Felix Becker published it in 1922.
- Attribution
- Giorgione
- Title as printed
- Vor Castelfranco
- Title in English
- Before Castelfranco
- Medium and size
- Red chalk, 20 × 29 cm
- Collection in 1922
- Julius Böhler jun., Munich (formerly Sir Charles Robinson)
Today
Modern cataloguing and the drawing’s whereabouts, as far as they are known.
- Status
- In a museum
- Where is it now?
- Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, I 485 (PK), now identified as Castel San Zeno, Montagnana, c. 1507–1510. The museum identifies it as Becker 1922, pl. 36.
- Attribution today
- Giorgione, retained by the museum; some scholars have doubted the attribution
- Title today
- View of Castel San Zeno, Montagnana, with a Seated Figure in the Foreground
- Date
- c. 1507–1510
- Medium
- Red chalk on paper.
- Dimensions
- 20.3 × 29 cm (original drawing).
- Provenance
- Resta–Marchetti album; Lord Somers; Charles Rogers; J. C. Robinson; Franz W. Koenigs, Haarlem (1929); D.G. van Beuningen (1940), donated to Stichting Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (per the museum’s record).
The sheet in this copy
Sources
- Felix Becker, Handzeichnungen alter Meister in Privatsammlungen (Leipzig, 1922), plate 36.
- Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen — official collection recordhttps://www.boijmans.nl/en/collection/artworks/58879/view-of-castel-san-zeno-montagnana-with-a-seated-figure-in-the-foreground