Ecce Homo
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Recueil de Dessins folio 30(b).
One of ninety-six drawings (2006.27:1-96) that the French architect and collector Hippolyte Destailleur apparently pasted into an empty quarto album. See Recueil de Dessins, folios: 30(2), 39(1), 41(1), and 42(1).
This drawing is mounted together with another fragment, both of which come from the same album. The second sketch is in a different hand and depicts the Adoration of the Shepherds.1 It is assumed that the drawings are not original to the eighteenth-century album, which contains mostly French artists of that century. Felice Stampfle convincingly posited that the album most likely came with empty pages into the hands of a later collector, perhaps Hippolyte Destailleur, who used them to preserve a number of his smaller drawings, including the present sheet.2
Footnotes:
- Morgan Library & Museum, New York, inv. 2006.27:1-96, fol. 30(a).
- Stampfle, in Miner 1954, 209-15.
Destailleur, Hippolyte Alexandre Gabriel Walter, 1822-1893, former owner.
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.