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.

Portrait of Giovanni Valsilacchi

Palma il Giovane
1544-1628

Portrait of Giovanni Valsilacchi

1606
5 7/8 x 3 7/8 inches (146 x 98 mm)
Pen and brown ink, over red chalk, and black chalk, on paper; framing lines in brown and gray-brown ink.
IV, 82:3

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

Notes
Watermark: none.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed at top, in pen and brown ink, "1606 adi 20 zugno [i.e. giugno] nasce 1606 / Gianni vascilachi di etta di/ ani quatro e misi sie [i.e. mesi sei; aged 4 1/2 years] che / tanto vi[s]se di un giudizio gumo[mo superscript] [giutissimo(?)] morsi adi / 20 di dic[embre] / 1610".
Associated names
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, IV, 82, repr.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department