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Queen of Sheba Bringing Presents to Solomon

Pietro da Cortona
1596-1669

Queen of Sheba Bringing Presents to Solomon

8 5/8 x 14 1/8 inches (219 x 358 mm)
Pen and brown ink and wash, with white and blue opaque watercolor, on blue-gray paper.
1975.33

Purchased on the Fellows Fund.

Notes
Watermark: none.
Preparatory study for one of the incidents in the story of Solomon on the vault of the Gallery of the Palazzo Mattei in Rome. An earlier version of the composition is at the Teyler Museum, inv. E 053; see van Tuyll, Italian Drawings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries in the Teyler Museum, 2021, no.125).
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed on verso, in pen and light brown ink, "Pietro Cortona"; on mend in pen and dark brown ink, "Pietro Berretini da Cortona. / ob: 1669. aetat: 73. / Abedario. [sic] fol: 356"; in another hand, "38 / 28".
Associated names
Goll van Franckenstein, J. (Johann), 1722-1785, former owner.
Goll van Franckenstein, Pieter Hendrik, 1787-1832, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Bibliography
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Eighteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1975-1977. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978, p. 258.
Scholz, Janos. Italian Master Drawings, 1350-1800, from the János Scholz Collection. New York : Dover, 1976, no. 91, repr.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department