Giorgio Vasari

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Giorgio Vasari

1511-1574

Man Seated in Profile to Right

ca. 1563-1566

Black chalk on light brown paper.

11 5/16 x 7 15/16 inches (287 x 202 mm)

Purchased as the gift of the Fellows.

1965.6

Description:

The drawing is a study for one of the Florentine patricians seated in the left foreground of the Harangue of Antonio Giacomini on the ceiling of the Sala Grande of the Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, painted by Vasari ca. 1563-66. The scene represents Giacomini exhorting the Florentines to declare war against Pisa. An early design by Vasari for the octagonal painting and its adjoining panels is also in the Morgan Library.¹ Further studies related to the composition, attributed to the Vasari workshop, include a study in red chalk in the J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky,² for the eight priors seated at upper left in the painting and a design in the Fondazione Horne.³

Footnotes:

Morgan Library & Museum, New York, inv. 1984.60.
J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, inv. 67.1. See Thiem 1968, 148-149 (as Vasari workshop); Pillsbury 1976, 135-136 (as a possible copy after Vasari); Allegri and Cecchi 1980, 253, no. 28c (as Vasari); Hӓrb 2015, 450-51, no. 289 (as Vasari).
Museo Horne, Florence, inv. 5610. See Thiem 1968, 146-147 (as a workshop copy after Vasari); Pillsbury 1976, 132-133 (as Stradanus); Allegri and Cecchi 1980, 253. no. 28a (as Stradanus); Florence 2000, 48, no. 16 (as Stradanus); Hӓrb 2015, 451 (as Stradanus).

Notes:

Watermark: none.
Study for one of the Florentine patricians seated in left foreground of the "Harangue of Antonio Giacomini" on the ceiling of the Sala Grande of the Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, painted by Vasari about 1563-66.

Inscription:

Inscribed on verso at center in pen and brown ink, "Giorgio Vasari", at lower center in graphite, "Vasari"; at lower edge in graphite, "D 28026" (Colnaghi stock number); below this in pen and dark brown ink, Ottley's number, "125 WYO".

Provenance:

William Young Ottley (1771-1836), London (Lugt 2664); Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830), London (Lugt 2445); P & D Colnaghi and Co., London, 16 June-7 July 1965, no. 6; from whom purchased.

Associated names:

Lawrence, Thomas, Sir, 1769-1830, former owner.
Ottley, William Young, 1771-1836, former owner.

Bibliography:

Selected references: Thiem 1968, 147-48; New York and Binghampton 1970, 85-86, no. D41; Monbeig Goguel 1971, 16, 89-90; Eisler 1975, no. 14; Pillsbury 1976, 135; Allegri and Cecchi 1980, 253, no. 28b; New York 1981, no. 24; Florence 2000, 48, no. 16; New York 2008, no. 34; Härb 2015, 450-51, no. 288.
Pierpont Morgan Library. Review of Acquisitions, 1949-1968. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1969, p. 174
Adams, Frederick B., Jr. Fourteenth Annual Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1967, p. 103.

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