Giorgio Vasari
1511-1574
Design for the Decoration of a Loggia with Grotesques
4 1/16 x 1 1/8 inches (104 x 280 mm)
Pen and brown ink and wash, over black chalk, and stylus indentations, on paper.
1984.61:2
Gift of Janos Scholz.
Notes
Traced with stylus on the verso.
One of six studies for a vaulted ceiling decoration. Although the specific project has not yet been identified, it has been tentatively related to a commission for the decoration of a loggia that Vasari received on 14 April 1545 from Don Pietro Tolledo, Viceroy of Naples.
One of six studies for a vaulted ceiling decoration. Although the specific project has not yet been identified, it has been tentatively related to a commission for the decoration of a loggia that Vasari received on 14 April 1545 from Don Pietro Tolledo, Viceroy of Naples.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed in framed tablets, in pen and brown ink, "capricornus; virgo; aires"; and below the figures, "FLO / RA; CER / ES". Beneath these inscriptions, on the springing of the arch, "eolus".
Watermark: Scissor inside circle (shears). Fragment.
Watermark: Scissor inside circle (shears). Fragment.
Associated names
Moscardo family, former owner.
Calceolari, marquis de, former owner.
Saint-Saphorin, Armand-François-Louis de Mestral de, 1738-1805, former owner.
Marmier, André, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Calceolari, marquis de, former owner.
Saint-Saphorin, Armand-François-Louis de Mestral de, 1738-1805, former owner.
Marmier, André, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Bibliography
Selected reference: Vitzthum 1966, 64; Thiem 1968, 150; Notre Dame and Birmingham 1970, 83-84, no. D33; Washington and New York 1973-74, no. 28; Ragghianti Collobi 1976, 62; Fellows Report 1989, 386; New Haven 1994, 27, no. 25; Prague 1996, 231; Corti 1996, 161; Fairbrain 1998, 2: 518; Boston and Florence 2003-04, 195, 421-24, no. 29f; Gregory 2012, 372; Härb 2015, 317-319, no. 161f.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twenty-First Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984-1986. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1989, p. 386.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twenty-First Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984-1986. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1989, p. 386.
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