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.

Vittorio Amedeo II of Savoy Receiving Divine Approval [?]

Italian School
18th century

Vittorio Amedeo II of Savoy Receiving Divine Approval [?]

ca. 1710-30
21 1/8 x 11 inches (537 x 279 mm)
Pen and brown ink, gray wash, over black chalk on paper; arched top incised with a stylus.
1974.59

Gift of Robert Halsband.

Notes
Alastair Laing observed that the subject of this sheet is likely related to a maritime victory, perhaps that of Vittorio Amedeo II of Savoy over the French in the 1706 Siege of Turin. Francois Marandet suggested it might be the work of a Venetian artist and date somewhat later, ca. 1730.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed on banderole in composition, “PAX [in virtute] tua et Abbundantia in Turribus” [Psalm 122]; various numbers on verso, including “n 33.”
Watermark: Stag within a circle surmounted by letter P. (see Heawood 19).
Associated names
Halsband, Robert, 1914-1989, former owner.
Bibliography
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Nineteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978-1980. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981, p. 192.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department