Biagio Pupini
active 1511-1551
Marriage of the Virgin
7 15/16 x 11 5/8 inches (202 x 295 mm)
Pen and brown ink, gray-brown wash, ove charcoal, with white opaque watercolor, on cream paper; recto: traces of charcoal, black chalk and brown ink, on paper prepared with brown wash.
I, 22
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Notes
Watermark: none.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed on verso in pen and brown ink, "Ma! Biazii de gratia ve prego se siati contento da fare ancora uno sposalizio de la madona"; at lower left corner, in black chalk, partly abraded, "J...r..enter".
Associated names
Richardson, Jonathan, 1665-1745, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, John Pierpont, 1837-1913, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, John Pierpont, 1837-1913, former owner.
Bibliography
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, IV, 22, repr.
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Century Drawings
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