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Miguel Barroso
ca. 1538-1590
Design for a Cope with SS. John and Luke
ca. 1587-89
Pen and brown ink, brown wash, opaque lead white, over black chalk on blue laid paper.
10 3/8 x 26 11/16 inches (263 x 676 mm)
Purchased on the Lois and Walter C. Baker Fund.
1985.53
Inscription:
Inscribed at lower right in pen and brown ink, "Sct Joan y san marcos"; numbered at upper right, "6".
Provenance:
P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., Ltd., London.
Bibliography:
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twenty-First Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984-1986. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1989, p. 316-317.
Old Master Drawings, P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., exhibition review, Burlington Magazine, CXXVII, 1985, 472, no. 988.
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Watermark: none.
One of a series of designs for the embroidery of vestments for the Monastery of El Escorial executed by Barroso, Diego Lopez de Escuriaz, and other unidentified artists.
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