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Two Scenes: Judgement of Paris and Three Seated Monks in a Landscape

Italian School
15th century

Two Scenes: Judgement of Paris and Three Seated Monks in a Landscape

ca. 1460-1475
3 5/8 x 5 1/4 inches (92 x 134 mm)
Pen and brown ink and wash, on prepared (?) paper.
I, 6:1

Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.

Notes
One of a series of six leaves from a sketchbook on one mat (I, 6:1-I, 6:6).
Watermark: none visible through lining.
This group of sketchbook leaves is likely the work of a miniaturist or engraver.
Description

The present sheet, along with five others in the Morgan’s collection, was once part of a sketchbook.1 Ruth Goebel noted that these drawings seem to derive from nielli (email to Morgan curators, 1999). For instance, the Judgement of Paris and the Three Monks of the present sheet are similar in type to nielli designs of the same subjects.2

Footnotes:

  1. Morgan Library & Museum, New York, inv. I, 6:1-I, 6:6.
  2. Hind 1936, 19, no. 141; Blum 1950, 13-14, nos. 16, 24.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed in lower right corner, in pen and brown ink, when turned through 90 degrees: "24".
Associated names
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.
Bibliography
Selected references: Fairfax Murray 1905-12, 1: no. 6 (as Florentine school, fifteenth century).
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, I, 6, repr. (as Florentine school, fifteenth century)..
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department