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Italian School

15th century

Two Scenes: St. Jerome(?) in his Study and Group of Monks Presenting a Book to a Seated Monastic Saint

ca. 1460-1475

Pen and brown ink and wash, on prepared (?) paper; sewing holes along upper edge; guidelines (?) at left, top and right ruled into prepared surface.

3 3/4 x 5 1/4 inches (95 x 134 mm)

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

I, 6:2

Description:

The present sheet, along with five others in the Morgan’s collection, was once part of a sketchbook.¹ Ruth Goebel noted that these drawings seem to derive from nielli (email to Morgan curators, 1999). For instance, the Judgement of Paris and the Three Monks of inv. I, 6:1 are similar in type to nielli designs of the same subjects.²

Footnotes:

Morgan Library & Museum, New York, inv. I, 6:1-I, 6:6.
Hind 1936, 19, no. 141; Blum 1950, 13-14, nos. 16, 24.

Notes:

One of a series of six leaves from a sketchbook on one mat (I, 6:1-I, 6:6).
Watermark: none visible through lining.

Inscription:

Inscribed? at upper right corner, in pen and brown ink, when turned 90 degrees, "R" (?).

Provenance:

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:

Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Morgan, J. P. (John Pierpont), 1867-1943, former owner.

Bibliography:

Selected references: Fairfax Murray 1905-12, 1: no. 6 (as Florentine school, fifteenth century).
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, I, 6, repr. (as Florentine school, fifteenth century).

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