Italian School
16th century
Group of Onlookers in a Vaulted Interior
10 1/4 x 15 7/8 inches (259 x 401 mm; maximum dimensions)
Pen and brown ink and wash, black chalk, on paper; retouched with white and yellow opaque watercolor, brown and dark brown washes; laid down on Creswell mount from a Creswell album.
1986.1
Gift of Otto Manley.
Notes
Watermark: none visible through lining; or, illegible design within a circle.
Possibly attributed to Pirro Ligorio, Naples 1513-1583 Ferrara.
Retouched by Sir Peter Paul Rubens, Siegen 1577-1640 Antwerp.
Rearranged detail after left third of Donatello's bronze relief of "St Antony and the Mircacle of the Ass of Rimini", high altar, S. Antonio, Padua. The original sixteenth-century draughtsman exchanged the left for the right half of the left-hand section of Donatello's bronze relief.
Possibly attributed to Pirro Ligorio, Naples 1513-1583 Ferrara.
Retouched by Sir Peter Paul Rubens, Siegen 1577-1640 Antwerp.
Rearranged detail after left third of Donatello's bronze relief of "St Antony and the Mircacle of the Ass of Rimini", high altar, S. Antonio, Padua. The original sixteenth-century draughtsman exchanged the left for the right half of the left-hand section of Donatello's bronze relief.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed at lower left, in pen and brown ink, by Rubens according to Jaffé, "Pirro Ligorio"; on verso of mount, at lower center, in red chalk, "75".
Associated names
Ligorio, Pirro, approximately 1513-1583, possible attribution.
Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577-1640, former owner.
Cresswell, A. F., former owner.
Wrangham, Edward, former owner.
Wright, F. W., former owner.
Manley, Otto, -1989, former owner.
Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577-1640, former owner.
Cresswell, A. F., former owner.
Wrangham, Edward, former owner.
Wright, F. W., former owner.
Manley, Otto, -1989, former owner.
Bibliography
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twenty-First Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984-1986. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1989, p. 350.
Netherlandish drawings of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and Flemish drawings of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in the Pierpont Morgan Library / Felice Stampfle ; with the assistance of Ruth S. Kraemer and Jane Shoaf Turner. New York : The Library, 1991, p. 152-153, no. 319.
Netherlandish drawings of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and Flemish drawings of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in the Pierpont Morgan Library / Felice Stampfle ; with the assistance of Ruth S. Kraemer and Jane Shoaf Turner. New York : The Library, 1991, p. 152-153, no. 319.
Classification
Century Drawings
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