Italian School
17th century
Grotesque Decoration with an Allegory of Abundance Standing in an Aedicule. Verso: An Escutcheon Flanked by Two Standing Figures, A Sketch of a Head, and Some Pen Trials
ca. 1600-1630
15 3/4 x 11 inches (400 x 279 mm)
Pen and brown ink on paper.
1986.2
Gift of Otto Manley.
Notes
Verso apparently by a later hand than recto.
Formerly attributed to Anonymous, Italian School, mid-16th cent.
Watermark: serpent (cf. Briquet 13642; Milan, around 1547).
Formerly attributed to Anonymous, Italian School, mid-16th cent.
Watermark: serpent (cf. Briquet 13642; Milan, around 1547).
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed at lower left in black chalk, "originale"; in graphite, "Gio. da Udine"; at lower center in black chalk, "1292(?);" on verso at lower right, in pen and brown ink, with pen trials, "Io a~ d d d dd / dd."
Associated names
Anonymous, Italian School, 16th cent., Formerly attributed to.
Schilling, Edmund, 1888-1974, former owner.
Manley, Otto, -1989, former owner.
Schilling, Edmund, 1888-1974, former owner.
Manley, Otto, -1989, former owner.
Bibliography
Selected references: Fellows Report 1989, 350 (as Italian School, mid-sixteenth century).
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twenty-First Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984-1986. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1989, p. 350.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twenty-First Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984-1986. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1989, p. 350.
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