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.

Standing Goat and Recumbent Sheep. Verso: Two Birds

Italian School
active 15th century

Standing Goat and Recumbent Sheep. Verso: Two Birds

ca. 1400-1410
6 3/8 x 4 3/4 inches (161 x 120 mm)
Brush and brown, white, and black opaque watercolor, and pen and brown ink for the Goldfinches, on parchment. Verso: Offset pattern of a brown ink drawing.
I, 84 (recto), I, 85 (verso)

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

Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed at upper right, in pen and brown ink, "8"; on verso, in lower right corner, in graphite, "88".
Associated names
Mitchell, William, -1908, former owner.
Leighton of Stretton, Frederic Leighton, Baron, 1830-1896, 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.
Bibliography
Rhoda Eitel-Porter and and John Marciari, Italian Renaissance Drawings at the Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 2019, no. 6.
Selected references: Fairfax Murray 1905-12, 1:82, 83 (as Pisanello); van Schendel 1938, 65-66 (as studio of Giovannino de' Grassi or his follower); Schmitt 1997, 20-21; Weimar and elsewhere 1999-2000, under nos. 1-4 (as Lombard, ca. 1400); Fischer Pace 2008, under no. 403; Munich 2008-9, nos. 2-3; London and Florence 2010-11, 91.
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, I, 84 and 85.
100 Master drawings from the Morgan Library & Museum. München : Hirmer, 2008, no. 3, repr. [Rhoda Eitel-Porter]
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department