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.

Religious Emblematic Design

Louis Félix Delarue
1730-1777

Religious Emblematic Design

1757
13 3/16 x 8 9/16 inches (335 x 218 mm)
Pen and brown ink and wash, over black chalk on paper; elaborate border in shades of blue and tan.
I, 284

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

Inscriptions/Markings
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".
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.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department