Nicolò dell' Abate

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Nicolò dell' Abate

approximately 1509-1571

Apollo, Standing, with Bow and Arrow

ca. 1550

Pen and brown ink and wash, with white opaque watercolor, over black chalk, with some black chalk worked wet, on laid paper.

10 7/16 x 6 15/16 inches (265 x 176 mm)

Purchased on the Edwin H. Herzog Fund.

1988.7

Notes:

Acquired as Niccolo dell'Abate.

Inscription:

Inscribed at lower center, in pen and brown ink: "Parmeggiano - from the collection of / the Duke of Alva".
Watermark: Kneeling angel holding a lily surmounted by a six-pointed star (compare ot Briquet 626: Reggio-Emilia, 1545; 626: Reggio-Emilia, 1554; 625: Vicenza, 1547).

Provenance:

Modesto Ignazio Bonaventura Luigi Genevosio [formerly Count Gelosi] (1719-1795; Lugt 545), Turin; Duke of Alva or Alba (according to inscription on drawing); possibly the Earl of Warwick (according to Denison 1990 - this might be a mistake for Parmegianino's Apollo and Marsyas which was Warwick); Rev. Dr. C. J. Ball (1851?-1924), Bletchington Rectory, Oxford; his sale, Oxford, Franklin and Jones, 28 March 1924; R.V. Lennard (1885-1967), Oxford;, by descent to Mrs. M. Munby; sale, London, Sotheby's, 4 July 1988, lot 12; acquired at sale on the Morgan's behalf by Richard Day, London.

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Associated names:

Genevosio, Modesto Ignazio Bonaventura Luigi, 1719-1795, former owner.
Alva, Duke of, former owner.
Warwick, George Guy Greville, Earl of, 1818-1893, former owner.
Ball, C. J. (Charles James), 1851?-1924, former owner.
Lennard, Reginald Vivian, 1885-1967, former owner.
Munby, M., Mrs., former owner.

Bibliography:

Rhoda Eitel-Porter and and John Marciari, Italian Renaissance Drawings at the Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 2019, no. 85.
Denison, Cara D. "An Apollo by Niccolò dell'Abate", Master Drawings. New York: Master Drawings Association, vol. 28, no. 3, 1990, p. 265-267, fig. 1.
Rhoda Eitel-Porter and and John Marciari, Italian Renaissance Drawings at the Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 2019, no. 85.
Selected references: Denison 1990, passim; Béguin 1991, 83, 89; Fortunati 1995, 157; Bologna 2002, 244, under no. 63; Modena 2005, no. 121.

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