Luigi Baccio del Bianco

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Luigi Baccio del Bianco

1604-1656

Cardinal Francesco Angelo Rapacciolo (d. 1657) Fleeing on a Mule, under a Shower of Turnips

1643

Pen and brown ink on paper.

7 3/16 x 10 5/16 inches (182 x 262 mm)

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

III, 69

Notes:

Attributed to Baccio del Bianco (1643) by Louise Rice in Master Drawings, v. 47, no. 1 (Spring 2009), p. 53-69. See van Tuyll, Italian Drawings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries in the Teyler Museum, 2021, no. 52, for a related drawing by the artist.
Formerly attributed to Anonymous, Italian School, 17th cent.; the school of or a follower of Jacques Callot; and Stefano Della Bella.

Provenance:

Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), London and Florence; from whom purchased through Galerie Alexandre Imbert, Rome, by J. Pierpont Morgan, Sr. (1837-1913; no mark; see Lugt 1509) in 1909; his son, J. P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), New York; by whom given to the Library, 1924.

Associated names:

Anonymous, Italian School, 17th cent., Formerly attributed to.
Callot, Jacques, 1592-1635, School of, Formerly attributed to.
Della Bella, Stefano, 1610-1664, Formerly attributed to.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J.

Bibliography:

Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : drawings by the old masters formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, III, 69, repr.
Rice, Louise. Cardinal Rapaccioli and the Turnip-sellers of Rome: A Satire on the War of Castro by Baccio del Bianco. Master Drawings, v. 47, no. 1 (Spring 2009), p. 53-69.

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