Pietro da Cortona

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Pietro da Cortona

1596-1669

Queen of Sheba Bringing Presents to Solomon

Pen and brown ink and wash, with white and blue opaque watercolor, on blue-gray paper.

8 5/8 x 14 1/8 inches (219 x 358 mm)

Purchased on the Fellows Fund.

1975.33

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Watermark: none.
Preparatory study for one of the incidents in the story of Solomon on the vault of the Gallery of the Palazzo Mattei in Rome. An earlier version of the composition is at the Teyler Museum, inv. E 053; see van Tuyll, Italian Drawings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries in the Teyler Museum, 2021, no.125).

Inscription:

Inscribed on verso, in pen and light brown ink, "Pietro Cortona"; on mend in pen and dark brown ink, "Pietro Berretini da Cortona. / ob: 1669. aetat: 73. / Abedario. [sic] fol: 356"; in another hand, "38 / 28".

Provenance:

Jonkheer Johann Goll van Franckenstein, Amsterdam (Lugt 2987); by descent to Jonkheer Pieter Hendrick Goll van Franckenstein, Amsterdam; his sale, Amsterdam, 1 July 1833; János Scholz, New York (Lugt S. 2933b).

Associated names:

Goll van Franckenstein, J. (Johann), 1722-1785, former owner.
Goll van Franckenstein, Pieter Hendrik, 1787-1832, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.

Bibliography:

Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Eighteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1975-1977. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978, p. 258.
Scholz, Janos. Italian Master Drawings, 1350-1800, from the János Scholz Collection. New York : Dover, 1976, no. 91, repr.

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