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Attributed to Benvenuto Cellini
1500-1571
Designs for jewelry, cups, vases, placques, pediments and other decoration or ornaments
Pen and brown ink on paper, inlaid to paper perimeter mount. Paper silked on both sides.
various dimensions
2006.17
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Watermark: Fragments of a circle on leaves II, III, and XII. Watermark, beta radiograph.
The drawings are based on various sources, including Etienne Delaune.
Housed in a box as a two-volume set; vol. 2 consists of photoraphs of the drawings in vol. 1.
Provenance:
Private collection, Rome; from whom purchased in 1908 by Dr. George Charles Williamson (1858-1942), London (no mark; see Lugt 2578); from whom purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), New York (no mark; see Lugt 1509); J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), New York.
Associated names:
Raffaello, da Montelupo, 1504-1566, Formerly attributed to.
Delaune, Etienne, 1518?-1583, Formerly attributed to.
Williamson, George Charles, 1858-1942, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Morgan, J. P. (John Pierpont), 1867-1943, former owner.
Bibliography:
Selected references: Irvins 1918, 40 (as Cellini); Kris 1932, 27 (as attributed to Cellini); Hayward 1976, 23 (as Italian, mid-16th c.); Whiteley 1996, 1, 28, note 4 (as attributed to Raffaello da Montefeltro [sic]).
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