Watermark: none.
Study for apostle in lower left of "Assumption of the Virgin" in the parish church of S. Maria Assunta in Celana, Bergamo, signed and dated 1527.
Old photographs reveal a Portrait of a Man drawn on the verso of this sheet. The paper is, however, extremely brittle, and before the work was given to the Morgan, it was laid down to preserve the sheet, which had begun to crumble. Removal of this backing would put the work at undue risk, but the old photograph is included here for reference.
Vallardi, Giuseppe, 1784-1861, former owner.
Kieslinger, Franz, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Rhoda Eitel-Porter and and John Marciari, Italian Renaissance Drawings at the Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 2019, no. 61.
Selected references: Kieslinger 1934-36, 140, 173; Tietze and Tietze-Conrat 1944, no. 779; Banti and Boschetto 1953, 81; Venice 1953, 183, no. 3; Berenson 1955, 95, 130, 222; Pignatti 1957, 386; Venice 1957, no. 11; Bloomington and elsewhere 1958, no. 28; Oakland and San Francisco 1959, no. 29; Cologne 1963-64, no. 88; New York 1965- 66, no. 44; Pouncey 1965, 12-13; Washington and New York 1973-74, 117, no. 95; Montgomery 1976, no. 11; Oldfield 1996, 19:714-15; Béguin, Di Giampaolo, and Malgouyres 1998, 6; Florence 2001, 248; Rearick 2001, 88; Bergamo 2017, 51-52.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Eighteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1975-1977. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978, p. 274.
Oberhuber, Konrad, and Dean Walker. Sixteenth Century Italian Drawings From the Collection of Janos Scholz. Washington, D.C. : National Gallery of Art ; New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1973, no. 95, repr. (includes previous bibliography and exhibitions).
Venetian Drawings from the Collection of Janos Scholz, exhibition catalogue by Diane J. Gingold, Montgomery Museum of Fine ARts, Montgomery, Alabama, 1976, no. 11, repr.
Pouncey, Philip. Lotto disegnatore: ventotto tavole. Vicenza: Neri Pozza Editore, 1965, no. 9, repr.