Jacopo Bertoia

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Jacopo Bertoia

1544-approximately 1573

Joseph in Prison Interpreting the Dreams of Pharaoh's Butler and Baker (Genesis 40:1-23)

ca. 1570

Pen and brown ink and wash, over graphite, on paper; squared in pen.

9 11/16 x 8 11/16 inches (246 x 221 mm)

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

III, 141a

Notes:

Watermark: none visible through lining.
Formerly attributed to Anonymous, Flemish School, 17th cent.
Formerly attributed to Giovanni Battista Trotti, called il Malosso.
Formerly attributed to Maarten de Vos, 1532-1603.

Inscription:

Inscribed on mount in graphite, "Joseph interpreting the dreams / of the butler and baker"; in another hand, "D...(?)"; on verso of mount: at top left, in brown ink, "15"; at lower left, in graphite, "Salviati (crossed out) / Philipes Sale June 1801 / 1(?) day Lot 100"; in another hand, "9"; at lower right, "very good & true P".

Provenance:

Possibly Thomas Philipe (the inscription may refer to the direction of the sale of 1801 rather than to Philipe's property; no mark; see Lugt 2451); Charles Fairfax Murray (in his Inventory of 1910, as Maarten De Vos); from whom purchased in 1910 by J. Pierpont Morgan (no mark; see Lugt 1509).

Associated names:

Anonymous, Flemish School, 17th cent., Formerly attributed to.
Trotti di San Giulietta, Giambattista, 1686-1738, Formerly attributed to.
Vos, Maarten de, 1532-1603, Formerly attributed to.
Philipe, Thomas, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.

Bibliography:

Tuebingen, 1967, 253; Stampfle 1991, no. 248; Eitel-Porter and Marciari 2019, 20-21.
Stampfle, Felice, with the assistance of Ruth S. Kraemer and Jane Shoaf Turner. Netherlandish Drawings of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries and Flemish Drawings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries in the Pierpont Morgan Library. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1991, p. 112, no. 248.

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