View of the Hospice of Santa Maria del Lecceto from the West. Verso: View of the Same Building from the Northwest.
Purchased as the gift of the Fellows.
Once formed part of an album containing forty-one landscape studies by Fra Bartolommeo. The album, broken up and sold in 1957, bore the arms of the Florentine art historian F.M.N. Gabburri (1675-1742) on its frontispiece and had a title page that attributed all the drawings to Andrea del Sarto.
Watermark: Pear with two leaves, centered between chain lnes, Briquet 7386 (Florence, 1507).
Paolino, fra, 1488-1547, former owner.
Nelli, Plautilla, suor, 1523-1588, former owner.
Gabburri, Francesco Maria Niccolò, 1676-1742, former owner.
Kent, William, active 1742-1762, former owner.
Sperling, Harry G., 1906-1971, former owner.
Rhoda Eitel-Porter and and John Marciari, Italian Renaissance Drawings at the Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 2019, no. 22.
Selected references: New York 1981, no. 11; Florence 1986a, under no. 21; Fischer 1989, 319, 322, 324, 340n52; Rotterdam and elsewhere 1990-92, no. 112; Elen 1995, no. 46; Lillie 2005, 88-91; Geronimus 2006, 194; New York 2006, no. 9.
Adams, Frederick B., Jr., comp. Ninth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1958 & 1959. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1959, p. 88-91.
Stampfle, Felice, and Jacob Bean. Drawings from New York collections. I: The Italian Renaissance. New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1965, p. 33-34, no. 33, repr.
Pierpont Morgan Library. Review of Acquisitions, 1949-1968. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1969, p. 130.
Denison, Cara D., and Helen B. Mules, with the assistance of Jane V. Shoaf. European Drawings, 1375-1825. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981, no. 11.
From Leonardo to Pollock: Master drawings from the Morgan Library. New York: Morgan Library, 2006, cat. no. 9, p. 22-23.
100 Master drawings from the Morgan Library & Museum. München : Hirmer, 2008, no. 7, repr. [Kathleen Stuart]