Circle of Tomaso da Modena

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1325 or 1326-

Model book

ca. 1370-1380

Pen and brown ink, green wash, on parchment

Leaves: 9 1/8 x 6 7/8 inches (232 x 176 mm)

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

II, 2-25

Provenance:

Eugène Piot (1812-1890), Paris; 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:

Piot, Eugène, 1812-1890, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.

Bibliography:

Rhoda Eitel-Porter and and John Marciari, Italian Renaissance Drawings at the Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 2019, no. 2.
Selected references: Fairfax Murray 1910, nos. 1-25; Malaguzzi Valeri 1913, 1:226, 256, 289, 537, 541, 550, 591- 92, 726, 741; van Marle 1923-38, 7:122; van Marle 1931, passim (72, 81, 145, 478); Cauman 1938, 7; Demonts 1938, 333; van Schendel 1938, 69-70; New York 1939, no. 98; Nissen 1950, 29; Pächt 1950, 18, 38; Grassi 1956, 86-88; Ames 1962, no. 14; Baltimore 1962, no. 13; Scheller 1963, no. 20; Loomis 1965, no. 169; Pressouyre 1965, 433, 437; Degenhart and Schmitt 1968-2010, 1: no. 86; Bologna 1969, 354; Fossi Todorow 1970, 14, 88; Watson and Kirkham 1975, 42; Jenni 1976, 13, 27, 61, 78, 80, 103; Ettlinger 1978, 33; Florence 1978, xxiii; Jenni 1978, 139, 141; Leymarie, Monnier, and Rose 1979, 8; Watson 1979, 40-42; New York 1981, no. 1; Bellosi 1985, 15-21; Pesaro 1987, 73, 116; Brown 1988, no. 685; Dixon 1988; Gibbs 1989, 300-302; Dixon 1990, 9-20; Sciolla 1992, 232; Elen 1995, no. 1; Scheller 1995, no. 24; Coerver 1997, 208-9; Milan 1997, 205, 208; Marinelli and Mazza 1999, 24; Goebel 2002, 188; Paris 2004, no. 77; Cozzi 2006, 55-56; Manson 2006-8, 233; New York 2006, no. 1; Ritz- Guilbert 2010, 210-13, 221; Casadio and Cozzi 2012, 24-25; Cozzi 2016, 165.
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, II, 2-25.
Denison, Cara D., and Helen B. Mules, with the assistance of Jane V. Shoaf. European Drawings, 1375-1825. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981, no. 1.
From Leonardo to Pollock: Master drawings from the Morgan Library. New York: Morgan Library, 2006, cat. no. 1, pp. 2-5.

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