Italian School
18th century
Saint Dominic shown Bust-length
15 1/8 x 10 5/16 inches (385 x 262 mm)
Black chalk. Ruled border in pen and brown ink (partially trimmed).
1961.63
Gift of H.P. Kraus.
Notes
The drawing bears an attribution to the fifteenth-century Venetian master Sebastiano del Piombo on the verso and was noted as "Cavedone (Sebastiano del Piombo?)" when it entered the collection of the Morgan Library and Museum in 1961. It appears to be by a Florentine master of the early seventeenth-century, harking back to cinquecento prototypes.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed at upper right in pen and gray ink, "485"; on verso at lower center in pen and black ink, "Del. Piombo", at lower right in black chalk, "547"; at lower left, center, and right in graphite (?), "[effaced]"; at lower right in graphite (?), "W5-(?)"; on fragments of old mount in pencil, "Sebastiano del Piombo / (zugeschreiben).; Cavedone / A-S.; 5". Unidentified collector's stamp on verso. Stamped on fragment of old mount, "32a ['a' in superscript and underlined]".
Watermark: Crossed arrows, centered on chain lines. Attributed by H. P. Kraus to Cavedone (Sebastiano del Piombo). Acquired as Italian school.
Watermark: Crossed arrows, centered on chain lines. Attributed by H. P. Kraus to Cavedone (Sebastiano del Piombo). Acquired as Italian school.
Associated names
Sebastiano, del Piombo, 1485-1547, Formerly attributed to.
Kraus, Hans Peter, 1907-1988, former owner.
Kraus, Hans Peter, 1907-1988, former owner.
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