School of Annibale Carracci

1560-1609

Album of Drawings: The Life of St. Paul

Pen and brown ink, wash in varying shades of brown, occasionally in gray, over light indications in leadpoint, on paper. Bound in gold-tooled brown leather.

Binding: 11 x 8 1/4 inches (280 x 210 mm); leaf: 10 5/8 x 8 1/4 inches

Purchased as the gift of the Fellows.

1964.9

Notes:

Forty-nine leaves including two frontispieces, a title page lettered VITA / DI SAN PAOLO APOSTOLO / REPRESENTATA IN DISSEGNO / ET DICCHIARATA / IN SCRITTO", and fory-six pages of illustrations, each with a page of manuscript text in Italian to the left numbered I to XLVI.

Inscription:

Inscribed on verso of flyleaf in pencil in a nineteenth-century hand, "Mr. Lyon's Friend"; on folio 2, in pen and brown ink, in an older hand, "Illme Sigre Pron Colmo"; in another old hand; "Auuocato"; "Auacotos"; also various scribbles in a child's hand. Lettered on spine, "Desege/Di/N. Poussin".

Provenance:

Mrs. Allan Cameron; P. & D. Colnaghi and Co., London.

Associated names:

Cameron, Allan, Mrs., former owner.

Bibliography:

Adams, Frederick B., Jr. Fourteenth Annual Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1965 & 1966. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1967, p. 111.
Pierpont Morgan Library. Review of Acquisitions, 1949-1968. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1969, p. 136.

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