Baccio Bandinelli

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Baccio Bandinelli

1493-1560

Standing Man, Holding a Book or Tablet, and Pointing to His Left (A Prophet?)

1553-1555

Pen and brown ink, over black chalk, on paper.

15 7/8 x 7 5/8 inches (393 x 194 mm)

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

I, 6c

Notes:

Watermark: yes (Briquet 490-492 and related variants; Br. 6292-6297).
The drawing appears to be the only autograph study by Bandinelli related to his commission to carve marble prophets and saints in relief for the octagonal recinto of the choir of Florence cathedral. His autograph reliefs are dated 1555, but Bandinelli reports that he was at work on them by March 1553.

Inscription:

Inscribed on verso, at lower center, in graphite, "J".

Provenance:

William Mayor (1826-1892), London (Lugt 2799); 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:

Mayor, William, 1826-1892, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Morgan, J. P. (John Pierpont), 1867-1943, former owner.

Bibliography:

Rhoda Eitel-Porter and and John Marciari, Italian Renaissance Drawings at the Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 2019, no. 96.
Selected references: Heikamp 1964, 39; Ward 1982, under no. 164, no. 259; Cambridge 1988, under no. 45; Jaffé 1994, under no. 11.

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