Circle of Jacopo da Pontormo
1494-1556
Four Women, One Carrying a Child and One Crouching, About to Fill a Jug
ca. 1535-1555
10 1/16 x 4 1/2 inches (255 x 115 mm)
Pen and dark brown ink, over black chalk, with white opaque watercolor corrections, on laid paper; lined.
IV, 20
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Notes
Watermark: none visible through lining.
The drawing was classified as by Pontormo while in the Fairfax Murray collection (Jacopo Carucci Pontormo. Pontormo 1494-1557 Florence). Subsequently given to Rosso Fiorentino by Berenson, an attribution with which later scholars, however, did not agreeFormerly attributed to
The drawing was classified as by Pontormo while in the Fairfax Murray collection (Jacopo Carucci Pontormo. Pontormo 1494-1557 Florence). Subsequently given to Rosso Fiorentino by Berenson, an attribution with which later scholars, however, did not agreeFormerly attributed to
Description
The drawing was attributed to Pontormo while in the Fairfax Murray collection. It was subsequently given to Rosso Fiorentino by Bernard Berenson, though this did not gain the support of later scholars.1 The study appears to be Florentine and of the sixteenth century. The subject may be the Israelites in the desert.
Footnotes:
- Berenson 1938, 2: 315, no. 2448D.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed on verso of lining, at top and bottom center, in graphite, "Pontormo; K."
Associated names
Pontormo, Jacopo da, 1494-1556, Formerly attributed to.
Rosso Fiorentino, 1494-1540, Formerly attributed to.
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.
Rosso Fiorentino, 1494-1540, Formerly attributed to.
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
Selected references: Fairfax Murray 1905-12, 4: no. 20 (as Pontormo); Toronto 1926, 20, no. 38 (as Pontormo); Berenson 1938, 2: 315, no. 2448D (as Rosso Fiorentino); New York 1939, 20, no. 68 (as Pontormo); Barocchi 1950, 226 (as school of Girolamo da Carpi).
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : drawings by the old masters formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, IV, 20 (as Jacopo Pontormo).
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : drawings by the old masters formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, IV, 20 (as Jacopo Pontormo).
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