Giorgio Vasari
1511-1574
Annunciation. Verso: Design for a Ceiling
ca. 1571
5 1/4 inches (133 mm; diameter)
Pen and brown ink and wash, over black chalk; squared in black chalk; framing line in pen and brown ink; cut to a circle; verso: black chalk; squared in black chalk.
I, 35
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
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Watermark: none.
Associated names
Bronzino, Agnolo, 1503-1572, School of, Formerly attributed to.
Hawley, Joseph Henry, Sir, 1813-1875, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, John Pierpont, 1837-1913, former owner.
Morgan, J. P. (John Pierpont), 1867-1943, former owner.
Hawley, Joseph Henry, Sir, 1813-1875, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, John Pierpont, 1837-1913, former owner.
Morgan, J. P. (John Pierpont), 1867-1943, former owner.
Bibliography
Selected references: Fairfax Murray 1905-12, 1: no. 35 (as Bronzino); McComb 1928, 152 (as not Bronzino); Baltimore 1961, no. 78; New York 1965-66, 64, no. 104 (as Vasari); Notre Dame and Binghampton 1970, 89, no. D48; Pillsbury 1973, 173; Pillsbury 1976, 133; Härb 1998, 185; Orléans 2003-04, no. 6; Budapest 2009, 400-02; Arezzo 2011, no. 47; Aurigemma 2012, 117-18; De Girolami Cheney 2013, 132, note 17; Härb 2015, 591-92, no. 403.
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, I, 35, repr.
Stampfle, Felice, and Jacob Bean. Drawings from New York collections. I: The Italian Renaissance. New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1965-1966, p. 64, 104, repr.
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, I, 35, repr.
Stampfle, Felice, and Jacob Bean. Drawings from New York collections. I: The Italian Renaissance. New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1965-1966, p. 64, 104, repr.
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