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Italian School

16th century

Group of Onlookers in a Vaulted Interior

Pen and brown ink and wash, black chalk, on paper; retouched with white and yellow gouache, brown and dark brown washes; laid down on Creswell mount from a Creswell album.

10 1/4 x 15 7/8 inches (259 x 401 mm; maximum dimensions)

Gift of Otto Manley.

1986.1

Notes:

Watermark: none visible through lining; or, illegible design within a circle.
Possibly attributed to Pirro Ligorio, Naples 1513-1583 Ferrara.
Retouched by Sir Peter Paul Rubens, Siegen 1577-1640 Antwerp.
Rearranged detail after left third of Donatello's bronze relief of "St Antony and the Mircacle of the Ass of Rimini", high altar, S. Antonio, Padua. The original sixteenth-century draughtsman exchanged the left for the right half of the left-hand section of Donatello's bronze relief.

Inscription:

Inscribed at lower left, in pen and brown ink, by Rubens according to Jaffé, "Pirro Ligorio"; on verso of mount, at lower center, in red chalk, "75".

Provenance:

Sir Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640); A.F. Creswell (his mount); by descent to E. A. [Edward Addison] Wrangham, (1928-2009), Harehope Hall, Alnwick, Northumberland); his sale, London, Sotheby's, 1 July 1965, lot 27, as Italian School, sixteenth century, retouched by Sir Peter Paul Rubens; F.W. Wright, bought by Edmund Schilling (1888-1974), London, for Otto Manley (1904-1989), Vienna and Scarsdale, New York [Jaffé, 1966, p. 142]

Associated names:

Ligorio, Pirro, approximately 1513-1583, possible attribution.
Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577-1640, former owner.
Cresswell, A. F., former owner.
Wrangham, Edward, former owner.
Wright, F. W., former owner.
Manley, Otto, -1989, former owner.

Bibliography:

Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twenty-First Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984-1986. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1989, p. 350.
Netherlandish drawings of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and Flemish drawings of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in the Pierpont Morgan Library / Felice Stampfle ; with the assistance of Ruth S. Kraemer and Jane Shoaf Turner. New York : The Library, 1991, p. 152-153, no. 319.

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