Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Gaius Mucius Scaevola Holding his Hand in Fire. Verso: Two Overlapping Studies of a Standing Man and Two Sketches of an Arcaded Building

Domenico Beccafumi
1486-1551

Gaius Mucius Scaevola Holding his Hand in Fire. Verso: Two Overlapping Studies of a Standing Man and Two Sketches of an Arcaded Building

11 1/16 x 7 5/8 inches (281 x 193 mm)
Pen and brown ink, over black chalk, on paper; cut to an octagon; fragment of framing lines at left and at upper right; verso: black chalk and pen and brown ink.
1964.14

Purchased as the gift of the Fellows.

Notes
The sheet has been trimmed to an octagonal.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed at upper center, in pen and brown ink, "31".
Watermark: Tip of a crown, extremely fragmentary.
Associated names
Bloch, Victor, former owner.
Bloch, Victor, Mrs., former owner.
Bibliography
Selected references: New York 1965-66, 48, under no. 64; Providence 1973, 18, under no. 14; Gordley 1988, 163-64, 188-91, 203, 395, no. 86; De Marchi, in Siena 1990, 464-65, no. 131; Tenducci, in Torriti 1998, no. D92; Bolzoni, in New York 2019, 307-09, under no. 92.
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. 101-102.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department