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

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

Coriolanus and the Women of Rome. Scene from Livy's "Roman History"

Sebald Beham
1500-1550

Coriolanus and the Women of Rome. Scene from Livy's "Roman History"

1537
5 3/4 x 7 3/8 inches (146 x 188 mm)
Pen and black ink, with brown wash, on paper.
I, 260

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

Inscriptions/Markings
Signed with the artist's monogram and dated at upper left in pen and black ink, "1537"; inscribed variously in pen and black ink, "ROM"; "SEIN HAVS"; "FRAV VND KINER"; "MARTIVS"; "SEIN MVTER"; "ROMISCHE BEIBER". Inscribed at upper center in pen and black ink, "TITI LIVI"; along lower margin in pen and black ink, "MARTVS WART VERDRIBEN VON ROM. DER KRICKT DIE STAT. SEIN MVTER VND HAVSFRAV MIT IREN KINDEN VND AN/[DRE] EDELE ROMISCHE FRAVEN ERBATEN IN ZVM FRIT."
Watermark: none.
Associated names
Lely, Peter, Sir, 1618-1680, former owner.
Robinson, J. C. (John Charles), Sir, 1824-1913, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Livy. Ab urbe condita.
Bibliography
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, I, 260, repr.
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Classification
Century Drawings
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