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.

Marriage of the Virgin

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.
Bibliography
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, IV, 22, repr.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department