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Gaius Mucius Scaevola Holding his Hand in the Fire

Domenico Beccafumi
1486-1551

Gaius Mucius Scaevola Holding his Hand in the Fire

11 5/8 x 8 13/16 inches (296 x 224 mm)
Red chalk; incised with stylus.
1964.7

Purchased as the gift of the Fellows.

Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed on verso, at lower right, in pen and brown ink, "Domenico Beccafumo detto Meccarino / 2.4".
Watermark: Anvil and hammer inside a circle, centered on chain line (Briquet 5964: Sienna 1535-1543).
Associated names
Lely, Peter, Sir, 1618-1680, former owner.
Isaacs, J. (Jacob), 1896-1973, former owner.
Calmann, Hans M., 1899-1982, former owner.
Bibliography
Rhoda Eitel-Porter and and John Marciari, Italian Renaissance Drawings at the Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 2019, no. 92.
Selected references: New York 1965-66, no. 64; Vitzhum 1966, 110; Fellows Report 14 1967, 100-102; Sanminiatelli 1967, no. 76; Avery 1972, 103; Providence 1973, no. 14; Northampton 1978, no. 104; Gordley 1988, 288, 339, no. 85, under no. 95; Siena 1990, no. 132; Torriti 1998, no. D76, and under no. D92; Lincoln 2000, 96; London 2007-8, no. 113; Paris 2009, under no. 8.
Pierpont Morgan Library. Review of Acquisitions, 1949-1968. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1969, p. 130.
Adams, Frederick B., Jr. Fourteenth Annual Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1965 & 1966. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1967, p. 100.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department