Pomponio Amalteo

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Pomponio Amalteo

1505-1588

Flight into Egypt. Verso: Two Studies of Drapery and Studies of a Nude and Mother and Child

ca. 1535

Pen and brown ink and wash, over black chalk, with white opaque watercolor, on blue laid paper. Verso: black chalk.

8 1/4 x 9 5/16 inches (210 x 239 mm)

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

IV, 70

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Notes:

Watermark: none.
The composition of this drawing was re-used for a much later altarpiece for the same subject in the chapel of the Montereale-Mantica family in the Cathedral at Pordenone, which Amalteo was working on around 1556.

Inscription:

Inscribed at lower right in pen and brown ink: "del amateo"; on verso, at lower center in black chalk: "Pomponio di Girolamo del Amalteo"; at lower left, "51" (encircled); beneath this, in graphite: "formerly in Cosway Colln"; beneath this, in pen and brown ink, by Esdaile, "1831 WE 10x 62."; at lower right in pen and brown ink, "Pomponio Amaltas Fresla (?)/ Disc.o Geniro(?) del Pordenone / con(?) il suo fratello Girola[mo?]".

Provenance:

Jonathan Richardson, Jr. (Lugt 2170); Richard Cosway (1740-1821), London (Lugt 629); William Esdaile (1758-1837), London and Teddington, Middlesex (Lugt 2617); probably his sale, London, Christie's, 20 June 1840, lot 414, as G. Ant. Amati [sic], "The Flight into Egypt, pen and bistre, on blue paper; from Cosway's Collection" -17- ); bought by Buchanan (with lots 413 and 415) for 17s. ; probably the dealer, William Buchanan (1777-1864), London; Thomas Thane (1782-1846), London (Lugt 2461); Sir John Charles Robinson (1824-1913), Edinburgh and London (Lugt 1433); his sale, London, Christie Manson & Woods, 12 May 1902, lot 5 as Pomponio Amalteo, "Flight into Egypt-pen and wash, on grey paper From the Richardson, Cosway and Esdaile Collections"; bought by Johnson for £0.6.0 ; 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:

Richardson, Jonathan, 1694-1771, former owner.
Cosway, Richard, 1740-1821, former owner.
Esdaile, William, 1758-1837, former owner.
Thane, Thomas, 1782-1846, former owner.
Robinson, J. C. (John Charles), Sir, 1824-1913
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.

Bibliography:

Tietze and Tietze-Conrat 1944, 1: 35, no. 23; 2: pl. XCV, no. 1; Popham and Wilde 1950, 301, no. 745; New York 1965-66, 62, no. 99; Cohen 1973, 253-54, figs. 9 and 10; Menomonie 1973-74; Cohen 1975, 54-56, figs. 35 and 37; Furlan 1975, 16-17, fig. 17 (recto); Furlan 1976, 246; Pordenone 1980, 74, fig. 3 (verso); Cohen 1980, 36, 78, fig. 149 (verso); Furlan 1993, 265, fig. 59 (recto); Furlan 1998, 280, no. D45; Pordenone 2000, 132-33, no. 25; Jacoby 2014, 251.
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, IV, 70.

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