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.

Fortuna or Vanitas, Standing on a Wheel, and a Seated Female Figure (Sibyl?). Verso: Two Seated Female Figures, One Holding a Basket (Tuccia?)

Attributed to Biagio Pupini
active 1511-1551

Fortuna or Vanitas, Standing on a Wheel, and a Seated Female Figure (Sibyl?). Verso: Two Seated Female Figures, One Holding a Basket (Tuccia?)

15 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches (393 x 268 mm); verso, opening of window: 6 5/8 x 8 1/8 inches (167 x 207 mm)
Brush and brown wash, with white opaque watercolor, over black chalk, on blue paper; verso: black chalk, pen and brown ink and wash, with white opaque watercolor; drawing is laid down on an album page, on the verso of which, a window, framed in pen and brown ink, has been cut to reveal the verso of the sheet.
1992.148

Gift of Janos Scholz.

Notes
Watermark: none visible through lining.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed on verso of album page, in pen and brown ink, "di Biaggio Bolognese. / 6.3."; in graphite?, "after Rasor (as he) after J. Ant".
Associated names
Lely, Peter, Sir, 1618-1680, former owner.
Gibson, William, former owner.
Pembroke, Earl of, former owner.
Calmann, Hans M., former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Bibliography
Neumeyer, Alfred, and Janos Scholz. Drawings from Bologna 1520-1800. Oakland : Mills College Art Gallery, 1957, 94, repr.
Scholz, MMA, New York, 1965 (according to donor's records).
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department