Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Holy Family

Giampietrino
active 16th century

Holy Family

ca. 1525-1535
34 3/8 x 25 5/8 inches (873 x 651 mm)
Black and white chalk on two sheets of laid paper joined horizontally at center; pricked for transfer.
II, 1

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

Notes
Cartoon for an unidentified painting.
Inscriptions/Markings
Watermark: none visible through lining.
Associated names
Appiani, Giuseppe, 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. 49.
Selected references: Fairfax Murray 1905-12, 2: no. 1; Los Angeles 1949, no. 93; Bloomington and elsewhere 1958, no. 21; Bacall 1968, no. 25; Lawrence 1986, no. 6; Milan 1987-88, 17; Pedretti and Trutty-Coohill 1993, no. 42; Geddo 1994-95, 67; Marani 1996, 26:441; New York 2002-3, 177; Scrase 2011, no. 263; Rinaldi 2013a, 218-21.
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, II, 1 and introduction, repr.
Artist
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department