Italian School
15th cent
Lynx and a Recumbent Unicorn. Verso: Recumbent Ibex and Dog
ca. 1400-1410
6 3/8 x 4 3/4 inches (162 x 121 mm)
Brown and black watercolor, with white opaque watercolor Verso: Brush and brown, white, and black opaque watercolor, and pen and brown ink for the Goldfinches, on parchment.
I, 83 (recto), I, 82 (verso)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed in lower left corner, in graphite, "89"; on verso: inscribed at upper right, in pen and brown ink, "6
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.
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, 82 and 83.
100 Master drawings from the Morgan Library & Museum. München : Hirmer, 2008, no. 2, repr. [Rhoda Eitel-Porter]
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, 82 and 83.
100 Master drawings from the Morgan Library & Museum. München : Hirmer, 2008, no. 2, repr. [Rhoda Eitel-Porter]
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