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Design for a Fireplace (Female Personification of Virtue Triumphing Over Vices)

After Francesco Salviati
1510-1563

Design for a Fireplace (Female Personification of Virtue Triumphing Over Vices)

11 5/16 x 12 3/4 inches (288 x 323 mm)
Pen and brown ink and wash over black chalk on laid paper silhouetted on perimeter mount.
2009.257

The Joseph F. McCrindle Collection.

Notes
This drawing was given to Francesco Primaticcio (1504-1570) at least since the Jacques Auguste Boussac sale in 1926, and it entered the collection of the Morgan Library & Museum under that attribution. It is, however, a copy, presumably by a sixteenth-century Italian artist, after a preparatory study by Francesco Salviati in the British Museum (inv. 1946-7-13-52) for a fresco in the Palazzo Vecchio, Florence. Catherine Monbeig Goguel dates the original British Museum sheet ca. 1543-1544 (Catherine Monbeig Goguel, Francesco Salviati, 1510-1563, ou, La bella maniera. Paris, 1998, no.55, p. 180).
Formerly attributed to Francesco Primaticcio (1504-1570)
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed at bottom center in pen and brown ink, " [...] P 76"; at lower right in pen and brown ink, "146".
Associated names
Boussac, Jacques Auguste, 1885- former owner.
Feder, Odette, former owner.
McCrindle, Joseph F., former owner.
Primaticcio, Francesco, 1504-1570, Formerly attributed to.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department