Fra Bartolomeo

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Fra Bartolomeo

1472-1517

Virgin and Child Enthroned, Surrounded by Saints with Music-Making Angels. Verso: Fragmentary Sketches of Trees(?)

ca. 1511-1512

Black and white chalk, on brown laid paper, incised with stylus; arched top, made up to form a rectangle; verso: black chalk.

14 3/8 x 10 7/8 inches (365 x 276 mm; maximum dimensions)

Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.

IV, 11

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Drawing on verso by a later hand depicting Fragmentary Sketches of Trees.

Inscription:

Inscribed on verso at center left, in graphite, "50".
Watermark: Pear on a stem with two leaves (Briquet 7392: Lucca, 1516-17).

Provenance:

George Skene (d. 1776). Rubislaw, near Aberdeen, Scotland, and by descent; Sotheby's, London, 28 April 1898, lot 124; Sir J. C. Robinson (1824-1913; Lugt 1433), Edinburgh and London; his sale, Christie's, London, 12 May 1902, lot 13; 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.

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Associated names:

Skene, George, former owner.
Robinson, J. C. (John Charles), Sir, 1824-1913, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Morgan, J. P. (John Pierpont), 1867-1943, former owner.

Bibliography:

Rhoda Eitel-Porter and and John Marciari, Italian Renaissance Drawings at the Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 2019, no. 30.
Selected references: New York 1965-66, no. 29; Florence 1986a, under no. 63; Rotterdam and elsewhere 1990-92, under no. 64, 289n105; Paris 1994-95, under no. 53; Rotterdam 2016-17, 147.
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, IV, 11, 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, p. 32-33, no. 29.

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