Cecco Bravo
1607-1661
St. John the Baptist
15 3/4 x 10 1/16 inches (400 x 255 mm)
Red chalk, with white chalk, on paper.
1975.6
Purchased on the Fellows Fund.
Notes
Watermark: hillocks (close to Briquet 11946).
Perhaps preparatory for the stained glass window in Santa Cecilia, Florence, or the painting "St. John in the Desert," both lost, but recorded in seventeenth-century sources.
Perhaps preparatory for the stained glass window in Santa Cecilia, Florence, or the painting "St. John in the Desert," both lost, but recorded in seventeenth-century sources.
Associated names
Piancastelli, Giovanni, 1845-1926, former owner.
Brandegee, Edward, former owner.
Brandagee, Mary, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Brandegee, Edward, former owner.
Brandagee, Mary, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Bibliography
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Eighteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1975-1977. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978, p. 277.
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