Attributed to Francesco Fontebasso
1707-1769
Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine
18 1/2 x 13 1/2 inches (470 x 343 mm)
Pen and brown ink, over black chalk, on paper.
I, 79
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Notes
Formerly attributed to Anonymous, Italian school, probably Venetian.
A painter, printmaker, and draftsman, Fontebasso began as a pupil of Sebastiano Ricci but clearly also admired the work of Giambattista Tiepolo. Although long classified as an anonymous work, this densely hatched drawing, which may have been made for sale to a collector rather than as a study for a painting or print, is close in style to others by Fontebasso and may well be by him. --Exhibition Label, from "Tiepolo, Guardi, and Their World: Eighteenth-Century Venetian Drawings"
A painter, printmaker, and draftsman, Fontebasso began as a pupil of Sebastiano Ricci but clearly also admired the work of Giambattista Tiepolo. Although long classified as an anonymous work, this densely hatched drawing, which may have been made for sale to a collector rather than as a study for a painting or print, is close in style to others by Fontebasso and may well be by him. --Exhibition Label, from "Tiepolo, Guardi, and Their World: Eighteenth-Century Venetian Drawings"
Associated names
Anonymous, Italian School, 18th cent, Formerly attributed to.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Bibliography
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, I, 79, repr.
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