Giovanni de' Vecchi

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Giovanni de' Vecchi

approximately 1536-1615

Adoration of the Magi

ca. 1574

Pen and brown ink and wash, with purple wash, over black chalk, on paper; arched top of composition twice delineated in pen and brown ink; rectangular framing line in pen and brown ink.

12 15/16 x 8 11/16 inches (328 x 220 mm)

Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.

IV, 190

Notes:

Watermark: none.
On lining: fleur de lis in a circle.
Formerly attributed to Ventura Salimbeni.

Inscription:

Inscribed at lower right, in pen and brown ink: "Salimbeni"; on verso of lining, in pen and brown ink: "10 Ad(?) : o(?) : 3".

Provenance:

Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), London and Florence; from whom purchased through Galerie Alexandre Imbert, Rome, in 1909 by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), New York (no mark; see Lugt 1509); his son, J. P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), New York.

Associated names:

Salimbeni, Ventura, 1568-1613, Formerly attributed to.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Morgan, J. P. (John Pierpont), 1867-1943, former owner.

Bibliography:

Rhoda Eitel-Porter and and John Marciari, Italian Renaissance Drawings at the Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 2019, no. 117.
Selected references: Fairfax Murray 1905-12, 4: no. 190; Gere and Pouncey 1983, 1:177; Tosini 1994, 307; Knorn-Ezernieks 2013, 96, 289-91, no. 42.
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, IV, 190, repr.
Tosini, Patrizia. “Rivedendo Giovanni de' Vecchi. Nuovi dipinti, documenti e precisazioni." Storia dell'Arte, 1994, p. 307, fig.6.

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