Gherardo Cibo
1512-1600
View of the Badia of Monsignor Nocera. Verso: Fragmentary Sketch of Mountains
5 3/4 x 8 3/4 inches (145 x 222 mm)
Red chalk on paper; pricked for transfer; some additional slight sketches in pen and brown and red ink; verso: pen and red ink, red wash.
1993.203
Gift of Janos Scholz.
Description
A page from one of Cibo’s sketchbooks, this drawing records, as is often the case with Cibo’s works, the day (20 June 1567), place (“on the strada maestro”) and subject “the abbey of Msgr. Nocera” that it depicts. In addition to other single leaves, the Morgan also holds an intact sketchbook by Cibo, inv. 1969.16.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed at upper edge, in pen and brown ink, "[symbol for Venus i.e. Venerdi] 20. d[i] giug[ni] 1567 su la strada maestra: Badia d[i] mons[igno]r[e] Rmo[mo superscript] [Reverendissimo(?)] d[i] nocera"; on verso, in black chalk, "8".
Associated names
Schaefer, Manus, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Bibliography
Durham 1965, no. 2; Bolten 1969, 129, 144
Italian Landscape Drawings from the Collection of Janos Scholz. Durham, N.C. : The Gallery, Department of Art, Duke Univesity, 1965, no. 2.
Italian Landscape Drawings from the Collection of Janos Scholz. Durham, N.C. : The Gallery, Department of Art, Duke Univesity, 1965, no. 2.
Classification
Century Drawings
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