Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Two Monks Kneeling before the Virgin

Giuseppe Cades
1750-1799

Two Monks Kneeling before the Virgin

1791
17 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches (445 x 292 mm)
Pen and black and brown ink, with colored chalks, over black chalk, on paper.
1977.4

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Notes
Watermark: coat of arms with fleur-de-lis, surmounted by a crown (Heawood 1828).
Study for an altarpiece in S. Andrea delle Frate?, Rome.
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed and dated at lower right corner, "G. Cades 1791"; inscribed in pen and brown ink on separate sheet attached to verso, "Disegno di Giuseppe Cades eseguito nel quadro da esso fatto in S. Andrea delle Fratte Sua Parocchia".
Associated names
Wallach, Hellmuth, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Bibliography
Stampfle, Felice, and Jacob Bean. Drawings from New York collections. III: The eighteenth century in Italy. New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1971, no. 296, repr.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Eighteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1975-1977. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978, p. 254-255.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department