Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Prophet with Banderole, Looking up to the Right, and Striding to Left

Battista Franco
1510?-1561

Prophet with Banderole, Looking up to the Right, and Striding to Left

ca. 1540-1550
9 1/8 x 6 inches (232 x 152 mm)
Pen and brown ink on paper.
IV, 73a

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

Notes
Watermark: none visible through lining.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed at lower left, in pen and brown ink, largely effaced, "o[...]"; inscribed on verso, at upper center, cropped by upper edge of sheet, in pen and brown ink, with Richardson's pressmark, "[...] Zn 37 / K".
Associated names
Richardson, Jonathan, 1665-1745, former owner.
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, 4: no. 73a.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department