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S.S. John the Evangelist and Luke, and a Crowned Figure Blessing

Italian School
15th cent

S.S. John the Evangelist and Luke, and a Crowned Figure Blessing

ca. 1400
10 7/8 x 4 3/16 inches (276 x 106 mm)
Pen and brown ink on laid paper.
I, 2

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

Notes
Formerly Sienese School, 15th century.
Formerly Veronese School.
Formerly attributed to Martino di Bartolomeo (ca. 1365-1435).
Inscriptions/Markings
Watermark: none visible through lining.
Inscribed by the artist, at upper center, in pen and brown ink: "R"; at lower left, in pen and brown ink: "R".
Associated names
Martino di Bartolomeo di Biagio, active 1389-1434, Formerly attributed to.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Bibliography
Rhoda Eitel-Porter and and John Marciari, Italian Renaissance Drawings at the Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 2019, no. 3.
Selected references: London 1904, no. 76; Fairfax Murray 1905-12, 1: no.2; Weitenkampf 1917, 79; Weitenkampf 1919, 5; Toronto 1926, no. 26; Tietze 1947, no. 2; Degenhart and Schmitt 1968-2010, 1: no. 110; Seymour 1968, 1:104n23; Zucker 1973, 252; Ragghianti Collobi 1974, 1:39; Florence 1978, xx; Sutton 1979, 295; De Marchi 1988-89, 198n22; Forlani Tempesti 1991, 165; De Marchi 2002, 182; Weppelmann 2003, 11n5; Weppelmann 2003a, 321; Weppelmann 2011, 332.
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, I, 2.
Frank Weitenkampf, Drawings from the J. Pierpont Morgan Collection. Lent for Exhibition by Mr. John Pierpont Morgan (reprinted from New York Public Library Bulletin, January 1919), New York Public Library, 1 February- 30 April 1919.
Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, May 1927, Vol. XXII, No. 5, p. 137
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department