Download image:
Paolo Farinati
1524-1606
Allegorical Figure of Verona with View of City in Background
1558
Pen and brown ink and wash, with opaque white, on brown laid paper.
16 3/4 x 14 1/4 inches (425 x 368 mm)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
I, 87
Notes:
Watermark: none.
Inscription:
The drawing is signed at lower right with the artist's device of a snail; inscribed and dated at lower right, in pen and pen and brown ink, by the artist, "A. D. M. D / LVIII".
Provenance:
Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), London and Florence; from whom purchased through Galerie Alexandre Imbert, Rome, in 1909 by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), New York (no mark; see Lugt 1509); his son, J. P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), New York.
Associated names:
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Bibliography:
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, I, 87, repr.
Stampfle, Felice, and Jacob Bean. Drawings from New York collections. I: The Italian Renaissance. New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1965, no. 117.
Catalog link:
Artist page:
School:
Century:
Classification:
Department: