Giovanni Maria Butteri

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approximately 1540-1606

Allegory of Agriculture. Verso: Minor Sketch of a Left Arm, Traced Through from Right Arm of Figure Carrying a Ram on Recto

1565

Black chalk, gray wash, with white opaque watercolor, on paper prepared with gray ground; squared in black chalk; fragmentary framing lines at right and lower edges, in pen and brown ink; verso: pen and brown ink.

13 3/8 x 10 7/8 inches (339 x 276 mm)

Purchased as the gift of the Fellows.

1950.3

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Notes:

Watermark: none.
Acquired as attributed to Alessandro Allori, 1535-1607.

Inscription:

Inscribed at upper center, in black chalk, by the artist, "Tempio di Cerere"; vertical squaring lines numbered along lower edge, in black chalk, by the artist, "2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9; 10".

Provenance:

Leo Franklyn, London; Hans M. Calmann (1899-1982), London (as Allori); from whom purchased in 1950.

Associated names:

Allori, Alessandro, 1535-1607, Formerly attributed to.
Franklyn, Leo, former owner.
Calmann, Hans M., 1899-1982, former owner.

Bibliography:

Rhoda Eitel-Porter and and John Marciari, Italian Renaissance Drawings at the Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 2019, no. 100.
Selected references: Fellows Report 1 1950, 50-51; Scorza 1995, 172; Scorza 2003, 188.
Pierpont Morgan Library. Review of Acquisitions, 1949-1968. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1969, p. 129.
Adams, Frederick B., Jr. First Annual Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1950, p. 50-51.

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