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Christ Enthroned, on the Dome of a Circular Temple, Holding a Globe

Circle of Andrea Mantegna
1431-1506

Christ Enthroned, on the Dome of a Circular Temple, Holding a Globe

15 5/8 x 10 3/8 inches (396 x 265 mm; maximum width)
Pen and brown ink, over metalpoint and stylus indentations, on laid paper; on a leaf from a book of 1471?; verso: at upper center, cropped by edge of page, pen trials in brown ink.
IV, 54

Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.

Notes
Watermark: none.
Possibly attributed to Bartolomeo Vivarini, Venice c. 1440-after 1500 Venice.
Formerly attributed to Anonymous, Italian School, North, 15th cent., or Venetian, ca. 1480.
The drawing is one of a group of six pen studies published by Romolo Artioli in 1899. At the time, the drawings were bound into an edition of the "Great Latin Bible", published by Conrad Sweynheym and Arnold Pannartz in 1471-72 in Rome in 5 volumes.
Associated names
Vivarini, Bartolomeo, ca. 1432-ca. 1499, Possible attribution.
Anonymous, Italian School, 15th cent., Formerly attributed to.
Mantegna, Andrea, 1431-1506, School of, Formerly attributed to.
Olschki, Leo S. (Leo Samuel), 1861-1940, 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, III, introduction; IV, 54, repr.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department