Lelio Orsi

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Lelio Orsi

1511-1587

Apotheosis of Hercules as a Genius; Infant Hercules with a Serpent

Pen and brown ink, over black chalk, on laid paper.

9 3/16 x 7 13/16 inches (233 x 198 mm)

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

I, 153d

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Formerly attributed to Netherlandish School.

Inscription:

Inscribed at lower center, cut off by lower edge, in pen and brown ink, "gh. (or eh or eb or ob or gb ?)"; on verso, at upper center, in pen and brown ink, "100"; at lower center, in graphite, "11".

Provenance:

Richard Cosway, London (1740-1821; Lugt 628); possibly his sale, London, Stanley, 14-22 February 1822, lot 235, "A pen and brown ink drawing by Hemskirk"; to Mr. T.T.?, or one of six in lot 891; Sir Charles Greville (1763-1832), English officer (Lugt 549); George Guy, fourth Earl of Warwick, Warwick (1818-1893; Lugt 2600; his sale, London, Christie's, 20 May 1896, lot 180, as "Heemskerck, M. van., Fall of Lucifer"; to Fairfax Murray, London (listed in his inventory, "Heemskirk. Icarus"); 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:

Heemskerk, Martin van, 1498-1574, Formerly attributed to.
Anonymous, Netherlandish School, 16th cent., Formerly attributed to.
Cosway, Richard, 1740-1821, former owner.
Greville, Charles, 1762-1832, former owner.
Warwick, George Guy Greville, Earl of, 1818-1893, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.

Bibliography:

Stampfle, Felice, with the assistance of Ruth S. Kraemer and Jane Shoaf Turner. Netherlandish Drawings of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries and Flemish Drawings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries in the Pierpont Morgan Library. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1991, p. 45, no. 74, repr.

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