Piero di Cosimo
1462-1521
St. Francis Receiving the Stigmata. Verso: Fragmentary Study of the Virgin Kneeling and Holding the Christ Child
4 15/16 x 5 13/16 inches (110 x 147 mm)
Pen and brown ink, white opaque watercolor, over metalpoint, on blue prepared paper; the drawing was cut in two, vertically at center, probably when it was mounted in the eighteenth century; the two parts were reattached in 1974 by Janos Scholz; framing lines, at left, top, and right of each of the two fragments, in pen and brown ink and gold; verso: pen and brown ink.
1980.56
Gift of Janos Scholz.
Notes
Watermark: none.
Inscriptions/Markings
Illegible inscription, in pen and brown ink, at upper left; inscribed on Richardson mount, at lower center, in pen and brown ink, "Leonardo da Vinci"; above this, just to the left of the decorative border on the right half of drawing, in pen and black ink, "888"; on verso, in pen and brown ink, Richardson's pressmarks, "A.55. / B.50. / J 53. / D."
Associated names
Richardson, Jonathan, 1665-1745, former owner.
Robinson, J. C. (John Charles), Sir, 1824-1913, former owner.
Gruner, former owner.
Wadsworth, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Robinson, J. C. (John Charles), Sir, 1824-1913, former owner.
Gruner, former owner.
Wadsworth, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Bibliography
Scholz, CRIA, Los Angeles, and elsewhere, 1967, no. 40 (includes previous bibliography and exhibitions).
Italian Master Drawings from the Collection of Janos Scholz, Esq. Exhibited at the Charles L. Tutt Library. Colorado Springs : Colorado College, 1967, 11, repr.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Nineteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978-1980. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981, p. 208-209.
Italian Master Drawings from the Collection of Janos Scholz, Esq. Exhibited at the Charles L. Tutt Library. Colorado Springs : Colorado College, 1967, 11, repr.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Nineteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978-1980. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981, p. 208-209.
Classification
Century Drawings
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