Lelio Orsi
1511-1587
Apotheosis of Hercules as a Genius; Infant Hercules with a Serpent
9 3/16 x 7 13/16 inches (233 x 198 mm)
Pen and brown ink, over black chalk, on laid paper.
I, 153d
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Notes
Formerly attributed to Netherlandish School.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed at lower center, cut off by lower edge, in pen and brown ink, "gh. (or eh or eb or ob or gb ?)"; on verso, at upper center, in pen and brown ink, "100"; at lower center, in graphite, "11".
Associated names
Heemskerk, Martin van, 1498-1574, Formerly attributed to.
Anonymous, Netherlandish School, 16th cent., Formerly attributed to.
Cosway, Richard, 1740-1821, former owner.
Greville, Charles, 1762-1832, former owner.
Warwick, George Guy Greville, Earl of, 1818-1893, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Anonymous, Netherlandish School, 16th cent., Formerly attributed to.
Cosway, Richard, 1740-1821, former owner.
Greville, Charles, 1762-1832, former owner.
Warwick, George Guy Greville, Earl of, 1818-1893, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Bibliography
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. 45, no. 74, repr.
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