Louis Félix Delarue

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Louis Félix Delarue

1730-1777

Religious Emblematic Design

1757

Pen and brown ink and wash, over black chalk on paper; elaborate border in shades of blue and tan.

13 3/16 x 8 9/16 inches (335 x 218 mm)

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

I, 284

Inscription:

Signed and dated, in pen and brown ink, "Louis Delarüe fecit / anno 1757"; variously inscribed in pen and brown ink, in cloud at upper center, "gloria in excelsis deo"; below, at left corner, "Santa trinitas / unus deus / miserere / nobis"; at upper right, in cloud, "Speculum / justicia"; on the flaming heart, at center, "Santa dei / genetrix"; below, "Sola Fides Sufficit"; at lower left corner, "In te domine speramus"; on rectangular stone, "tu es petrus et Super / hanc petrum edificato / ecclesiam meam"; at lower right, below a pelican, "ignis carita".

Provenance:

Sir Charles Greville (1762-1832) English officer (Lugt 549); Earl of Warwick (Lugt 2600); Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), London and Florence; from whom purchased through Galerie Alexandre Imbert, Rome, in 1909 by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), New York (no mark; see Lugt 1509); his son, J. P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), New York.

Associated names:

Greville, Charles, 1762-1832, former owner.
Warwick, George Guy Greville, Earl of, 1818-1893, former owner.
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, I, 284, repr.

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