After Nicolò dell' Abate
approximately 1509-1571
Procession of Figures in a Landscape Below a High Bank
after 1552
8 3/4 x 7 3/8 inches (223 x 188 mm)
Pen and brown ink, brown and gray wash, with lead white opaque watercolor (partially oxidized), over black chalk, on light brown laid paper.
1979.42
Gift of Janos Scholz.
Notes
Watermark: none.
Description
The Morgan’s drawing corresponds to the lower right-hand part of a much larger sheet in the British Museum, which is also classified as a copy after Niccolò dell’Abbate.1 A drawing in the Göteborg Kunstmuseum appears to be the original from which the British Museum sheet was copied.2
Footnotes:
- British Museum, London, inv. 1950-4-1-6.
- Göteborg Kunstmuseum, Gothenburg, inv. Hdt 23/1915; Turner, in Modena 2005, 372-73, no. 153.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed at lower left, in pen and brown ink: "d'apres Parmens"; on verso, in pen and brown ink: "Parmens".
Associated names
Saint-Saphorin, Armand-François-Louis de Mestral de, 1738-1805, former owner.
Bovet, Alfred, b. 1859, former owner.
Burnand, Eugène, 1850-1921, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Bovet, Alfred, b. 1859, former owner.
Burnand, Eugène, 1850-1921, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Bibliography
Selected references: Scholz 1976, 14, no. 39 (as Nicolò dell'Abate); Fellows Report 1981, 173 (as Nicolò dell'Abate); Turner, in Modena 2005, 372-73, under no. 153 (as copy after Nicolò dell'Abate).
Scholz, Janos. Italian Master Drawings, 1350-1800, from the János Scholz Collection. New York : Dover, 1976, no. 39, repr.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Nineteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978-1980. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981, p. 173.
Scholz, Janos. Italian Master Drawings, 1350-1800, from the János Scholz Collection. New York : Dover, 1976, no. 39, repr.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Nineteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978-1980. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981, p. 173.
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