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 Belisario Palma Turned to the Left. Verso: Portrait of Belisario Palma Turned to the Right

Palma il Giovane
1544-1628

Portrait of Belisario Palma Turned to the Left. Verso: Portrait of Belisario Palma Turned to the Right

5 3/4 x 3 7/8 inches (145 x 98 mm)
Pen and brown ink, over red and black chalk, on paper; framing line in gray-brown ink; verso: pen and brown ink, over red chalk.
IV, 82:5

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

Notes
Watermark: none.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed at top, in pen and brown ink, "del 1605 adi 17 nove[m]bre finito / Belisario Palma di ingegno ellevato / di etta di ani quatro e mesi sinque / che tanto vi[s]se"; at lower right, in pen and brown ink, "1601 adi 18 zugno / naque il giov[an]e[e superscript] / Belisario".
Associated names
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department