Attributed to Simone Cantarini
1612-1648
Virgin and Child with Other Figures in a Landscape (Rest on the Flight into Egypt)
9 1/2 x 7 inches (240 x 179 mm; maximum dimensions)
Pen and brown ink, on light brown paper; framing lines in pen and brown ink overlapping from mount onto drawing.
1982.50
Gift of Janos Scholz.
Notes
Formerly atttributed to Palma il Vecchio, Serina nr. Bergamo 1479/80-1528 Venice.
Drawing is possibly a study for the artist's etching of The Rest on the Flight into Egypt (Bartsch, vol. XIX, no. 5).
Drawing is possibly a study for the artist's etching of The Rest on the Flight into Egypt (Bartsch, vol. XIX, no. 5).
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed in lower left corner, in graphite, "293"; on verso of lining, in graphite, "Coll Dr. L. Pollak, Roma / (Milano, 1947); RXX" (encircled); "800".
Watermark: Fleur-de-lis in double circle. Probably on lining, not drawing.
Watermark: Fleur-de-lis in double circle. Probably on lining, not drawing.
Associated names
Palma, il Vecchio, 1480?-1528, Formerly attributed to.
Pollak, Ludwig, 1868-1943, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Pollak, Ludwig, 1868-1943, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Bibliography
Bologna 1997, 333, no. III.17.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twentieth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981-1983. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984, p. 285-286.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twentieth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981-1983. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984, p. 285-286.
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Century Drawings
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