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

Interior of St. Peter's, with the Wooden Model of Bernini's Baldachin

Attributed to Agostino Ciampelli
1565 or 1578-1630

Interior of St. Peter's, with the Wooden Model of Bernini's Baldachin

11 9/16 x 14 1/8 inches (294 x 358 mm)
Pen and brown ink and wash, over graphite, with large paper collage element added, on paper. Adhered overall to old paper mount, 15 1/16 x 19 3/4 inche ( 383 x 501 mm).
1969.12

Purchased on the Fellows Fund.

Notes
Watermark: none visible in raking light.
The design of the baldachin with the congregation of clerics has been cut out from an earlier sheet and combined with a later drawing of the interior of the church.
The model was in place between 1628 and 1631.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed by Esdaile in pen and brown ink on recto of mount, "Lorenzo Bernini"; signed and dated by him on verso, "W. Esdaile 1816".
Inscribed in pen and brown ink on railing of stairway to crypt, "C. Bernin. E. Rom".
Associated names
Esdaile, William, 1758-1837, former owner.
Goldschmidt, Lucien, former owner.
Bibliography
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Sixteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1969-1971. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1973, p. 116.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department