After Girolamo Mocetto

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After Girolamo Mocetto

ca. 1458-after 1531

Metamorphosis of the Nymph Amymone

Green-brown, blue and brown washes, with white opaque watercolor, pen and green-brown ink, over black chalk, on laid paper.

11 1/4 x 17 1/16 inches (286 x 433 mm)

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

IV, 56

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After Girolama Mocetto. Murano ca. 1470-1531 Venice

Inscription:

Inscribed on a scroll in the foreground, in fantastic letters, in pen and green-brown ink, by the artist, "sepe eadem anas te tam[iam?] sat paxit; at lower left", in pen and brown ink, "M?"; on verso, at lower center, in black chalk, "105?"; according to note in departmental file, on verso of former lining, in 19th century hand, "Strutt has described an ancient print of this subject and size, but is at a loss to which artist to attribute it - V. Dictionary of Engravers page 24 - Introduction / Andrea Mantegna / lot 116 in graffins Fagal sale May 29, 1801 / TH / E. Roscoe's voll. painting 33v".
Watermark: Ladder in a circle (cf. Briquet, II, 5918 Lucca 1506-9/ Venice 1492).

Provenance:

William Esdaile, London (1758-1837; no mark; see Lugt 2617); William Young Ottley, London (1771-1836; Lugt 2662); his sale, London, Philipe, 14 April 1803, no. 361 "Mantegna. One - A curious emblematical subject, with an inscription at bottom in a sort of Greek character, Indian ink, and a little colour"; Sir J.C. Robinson, London (1824-1913; Lugt 1433); his sale, May 1902, lot 238, "Gerolamo Mocetto. A Sleeping Nymph, with Satyrs - pen washed with colour. From the Roscoe and Esdaile Collection" to Fairfax Murray; 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:

Esdaile, William, 1758-1837, former owner.
Ottley, William Young, 1771-1836, 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.

Bibliography:

Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, IV, 56, repr.

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