Virgin and Child Enthroned, Surrounded by Saints with Music-Making Angels. Verso: Fragmentary Sketches of Trees(?)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Drawing on verso by a later hand depicting Fragmentary Sketches of Trees.
Inscribed on verso at center left, in graphite, "50".
Watermark: Pear on a stem with two leaves (Briquet 7392: Lucca, 1516-17).
Skene, George, former owner.
Robinson, J. C. (John Charles), Sir, 1824-1913, 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.
Rhoda Eitel-Porter and and John Marciari, Italian Renaissance Drawings at the Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 2019, no. 30.
Selected references: New York 1965-66, no. 29; Florence 1986a, under no. 63; Rotterdam and elsewhere 1990-92, under no. 64, 289n105; Paris 1994-95, under no. 53; Rotterdam 2016-17, 147.
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, IV, 11, repr.
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. 32-33, no. 29.