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Circle of Domenico Campagnola
approximately 1500-1564,
Design for a Processional Banner with Four Music-Making Angels Adoring A Monstrance or Reliquiary
ca. 1540-1560
Pen and brown ink and wash, yellow-orange wash, and white opaque watercolor, on blue laid paper; incised with stylus.
10 1/16 x 6 13/16 inches (255 x 173 mm)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
IV, 59
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Watermark: none.
Inscription:
Possibly inscribed at upper right, above pelican, in pen and brown ink, by the artist, "DC"; on verso of lining, in graphite, "Border; 2".; faint on verso, "Campagnola".
Provenance:
William Mayor (1826-1892), London (Lugt 2799); 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:
Mayor, William, 1826-1892, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Bibliography:
Tietze and Tietze-Conrat, 1944, 129, no. A 514; Eitel-Porter and Marciari 2019, 27-28.
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, IV, 59, repr.
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