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Pierre-Jean Mariette and the Art of Collecting Drawings

Art dealer, collector, art historian, and connoisseur Pierre-Jean Mariette (1694–1774) assembled one of the finest and most renowned drawings collections. The selection shown here, drawn primarily from the Morgan’s holdings, speaks to Mariette’s discerning taste and erudition.

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Approach to the Bridge at Courbevoie

Georges Seurat

1859-1891

1886

2010.123

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Two Lawyers Conversing

Honoré Daumier

1808-1879

1997.87

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Rosa rubrifolia

Pierre Joseph Redouté

1759-1840

ca. 1817

1953.6

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Etrennes mignonnes pour l'an bissextil de Notre Seigneur

Liege, Chez Everard Kints, 1752

PML 251232

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The Library

The Library is by far the largest and grandest of the rooms in J. Pierpont Morgan’s Library.
The text of the New Testament of Iesus Christ / translated out of the vulgar Latine by the Papists of the traiterous seminarie at Rhemes ; with arguments of bookes, chapters, and annotations, pretending to discover the corruptions of divers translations, and to cleare the controversies of these dayes ; whereunto is added the translation out of the original Greeke, commonly used in the Church of England, with a confutation of all such arguments, glosses, and annotations, as conteine manifest impietie, of heresie, treason, and slander against the Catholike Church of God, and the true teachers thereof, or the translations used in the Church of England ; the whole worke, perused and enlarged in divers places by the authors owne hand before his death, with sundry quotations and authorities out of Holy Scriptures, counsels, Fathers, and history more amply then [sic] in the former edition by W. Fulke, D. in Divinitie.

Imprinted at London : By Robert Barker ..., 1601.

PML 128916

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A true & faithful relation of what passed for many yeers between Dr. John Dee ... and some spirits : tending (had it succeeded) to a general alteration of most states and kingdomes in the world : his private conferences with Rodolphe Emperor of Germany, Stephen K. of Poland, and divers other princes about it : the particulars of his cause, as it was agitated in the Emperors court, by the Pope's intervention : his banishment and restoration in part : as also the letters of sundry great men and princes (some whereof were present at some of these conferences and apparitions of spirits) to the said D. Dee : out of the original copy, written with Dr. Dees own hand, kept in the library of Sir Tho. Cotton ... : with a preface confirming the reality (as to the point of spirits) of this relation, and shewing the several good uses that a sober Christian may make of all / by Meric. Casaubon.

Dee, John, 1527-1608.

London : Printed by D. Maxwell for T. Garthwait ..., 1659.

PML 6273

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The text of the New Testament of Jesus Christ / translated out of the vulgar Latine by the Papists of the traiterous seminarie at Rhemes ; with arguments of bookes, chapters, and annotations, pretending to discover the corruptions of divers translations, and to cleare the controversies of these dayes ; whereunto is added the translation out of the original Greeke, commonly used in the Church of England, with a confutation of all such arguments, glosses, and annotations, as conteine manifest impietie, of heresie, treason, and slander against the Catholike Church of God, and the true teachers thereof, or the translations used in the Church of England ; the whole worke, perused and enlarged in divers places by the authors owne hand before his death, with sundry quotations and authorities out of Holy Scriptures, counsels, Fathers, and history more amply then [sic] in the former edition by W. Fulke, D. in Divinitie.

Imprinted at London : By Robert Barker ..., 1601.

PML 16041

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King as Builder of a City

Attributed to Lorenzo Sabatini

ca. 1530-1576

ca. 1565-1580

1959.11

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