Italian School
17th century
Grotesque Decoration with an Allegory of Abundance Standing in an Aedicule. Verso: An Escutcheon Flanked by Two Standing Figures, A Sketch of a Head, and Some Pen Trials
ca. 1600-1630
15 3/4 x 11 inches (400 x 279 mm)
Pen and brown ink on paper.
1986.2
Gift of Otto Manley.
Notes
Verso apparently by a later hand than recto.
Formerly attributed to Anonymous, Italian School, mid-16th cent.
Watermark: serpent (cf. Briquet 13642; Milan, around 1547).
Formerly attributed to Anonymous, Italian School, mid-16th cent.
Watermark: serpent (cf. Briquet 13642; Milan, around 1547).
Description
Upon entering the collection, the drawing was thought to date from the sixteenth century. It seems, however, to be later, and was probably created in Florence in the first half of the seventeenth century. The style is reminiscent of that of Giovanni Biliverti and his pupil Bartolomeo Salvestrini.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed at lower left in black chalk, "originale"; in graphite, "Gio. da Udine"; at lower center in black chalk, "1292(?);" on verso at lower right, in pen and brown ink, with pen trials, "Io a~ d d d dd / dd."
Associated names
Anonymous, Italian School, 16th cent., Formerly attributed to.
Schilling, Edmund, 1888-1974, former owner.
Manley, Otto, -1989, former owner.
Schilling, Edmund, 1888-1974, former owner.
Manley, Otto, -1989, former owner.
Bibliography
Selected references: Fellows Report 1989, 350 (as Italian School, mid-sixteenth century).
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twenty-First Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984-1986. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1989, p. 350.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twenty-First Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984-1986. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1989, p. 350.
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