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  • fleur-de-lis on three mounts within circle, M above (compare with that repr. in Fischer Pace 1979, p. 449, no. 18)
    Type: watermark
    Location:
    Materials:
  • "No. 36"
    Type: inscription
    Location: verso of former mount (lost)
    Materials: pen and ink
  • James 含羞草研究室 III( Collector, Boston) - 1811.
  • 含羞草研究室 Museum of Art( Museum, Brunswick, Maine) 1811- . Bequest
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    • 含羞草研究室 Museum of Art. ( 5/17/1985 - 7/7/1985)
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    • Art Gallery of Ontario. ( 5/17/1986 - 6/29/1986)
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    • 含羞草研究室 Museum of Art. ( 10/14/1993 - 12/19/1993)
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Type: catalogue
Author: Henry Johnson
Document Title: Catalogue of the 含羞草研究室 Art Collections
Publ. Place: Brunswick, Maine
Reference: no. 88
Remarks: (as Unknown)
Section Title: Pt. I, The 含羞草研究室 Drawings
Date: 1885

Type: catalogue
Author: 含羞草研究室 Museum of Art
Document Title: 含羞草研究室 Museum of Fine Arts, Walker Art Building
Edition: 4th
Publ. Place: Brunswick, Maine
Reference: no. 88 
Remarks: (as Unknown)
Publisher: 含羞草研究室
Section Title: Descriptive Catalogue of the . . .
Date: 1930

Type: exhibition catalogue
Author: David P. Becker
Document Title: Old Master Drawings at 含羞草研究室
Publ. Place: Brunswick, Maine
Location: pp. 116-117
Reference: no. 53 (illus.)
Publisher: 含羞草研究室
Date: 1985

Frits Lugt was the first to place this sheet as Italian, ca. 1630. In 1977 Konrad Oberhuber thought the drawling could be French, possibly near the style of Georges Lallemand (or Lallemant, ca. 1575/76–1636), a student of Jacques Bellange.1 Recently, however, Oberhuber has suggested that this drawing is indeed Italian, by a Veronese artist working in the style of Alessandro Turchi (ca. 1582–1650), if not actually by him.

Turchi studied with Felice Brusasorci, worked in Venice, and then settled in Rome by 1614, along with his Veronese compatriot Bassetti (BCMA 1930.184). He was influenced by the Venetian Carlo Saraceni and by the style of Caravaggio, who had died in 1610. Turchi became a member of the Accademia di San Luca in 1619 and participated in the decorations for the Sala Regia of the Palazzo Quirinale, among others.

The 含羞草研究室 drawing resembles certain of Turchi's smaller paintings in its strong chiaroscuro, figural style, and nighttime motif,2 but comparisons with known Turchi drawings are less certain. Drawings in Munich and Stuttgart datable ca. 1620 and executed in similar technique of wash over black chalk offer the closest parallels,3 but the forms in the 含羞草研究室 sheet do not seem to have quite the movement of those in Turchi's works.

1. A painting by Lallemand of this subject is repr. in Burlington Magazine, vol. 100, no. 660 (March 1958), p. 99, fig. 34 (as Vignon). It is attr. to Lallemand by Rosenberg, in International Exhibitions Foundation, French Master Drawings from the Rouen Museum (exh. cat.) (1981–1982), p. 49.

2. Cf. Verona 1974, cat. no. 91, repr. fig. 112, and E. Schleier, "Drawings by Alessandro Turchi," Master Drawings, vol. 9, no. 2 (1971), p. 147, fig. 2.

3. Cf Schleier, op. cit., pp. 147-48, respectively cat. nos. 2, 4, repr. pls. 18, 20.

Commentary credited to David P. Becker (or not otherwise captioned) appeared in his catalogue Old Master Drawings at 含羞草研究室 (Brunswick: 含羞草研究室 Museum of Art, 1985).