Sunday, March 20, 2016

18th-century Mariette Mounts at the Morgan Library

Annibale Carracci
Study for The Choice of Hercules
ca. 1595-97
drawing
Princeton University Art Museum
formerly in the collection of Pierre-Jean Mariette 

Pierre-Jean Mariette and the Art of Collecting Drawings is on display at the Morgan Library in New York through the end of April. Private collections, along with the collections at the Morgan, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and at the Princeton University Art Museum contributed Old Master drawings still housed in the characteristic blue mats that Mariette imposed with a sort of religious consistency on the drawings he acquired. Less charming are descriptions of Mariette's practices as a so-called "restorer"  which included firming up the outlines of Parmigianinos and Guercinos with his own fearless pen.

Parmigianino
Three sketches 
1530s
drawings
Princeton University Art Museum
formerly in the collection of Pierre-Jean Mariette

Parmigianino
Two sketches
ca. 1525-40
drawings
Morgan Library, New York
formerly in the collection of Pierre-Jean Mariette

Parmigianino
Man leaning against Plinth
1530s
drawing
Morgan Library, New York
formerly in the collection of Pierre-Jean Mariette

Gian Paolo Panini
View of the Vatican Palace from the Colonnade of St Peter's
18th century
drawing
Morgan Library, New York
formerly in the collection of Pierre-Jean Mariette

attributed to Cristofano Alori
Woman with two children
ca. 1600-1620
drawing
Morgan Library, New York
formerly in the collection of Pierre-Jean Mariette

follower of Albrecht Dürer
Stablemen of various nations
ca. 1517
drawing (figures copied from prints)
Morgan Library, New York
formerly in the collection of Pierre-Jean Mariette

Giovanni Baglione
Ceiling design
ca. 1598
drawing
Morgan Library, New York
formerly in the collection of Pierre-Jean Mariette

attributed to Johann Heinrich Roos
Study of a cow
attributed to Pieter Jacobsz van Laer
Study of a donkey
mid-17th century
drawings
Metropolitan Museum of Art
formerly in the collection of Pierre-Jean Mariette

Sébastien Bourdon
Allegorical composition in honor of Christina, Queen of Sweden
1640s
drawing
Morgan Library, New York
formerly in the collection of Pierre-Jean Mariette

Sebastiano Ricci
Venus and Cupid with other figures before an Altar
ca. 1700
drawing
Morgan Library, New York
formerly in the collection of Pierre-Jean Mariette

attributed to Giorgione
Putto bending Bow
ca. 1505-08
drawing
Metropolitan Museum of Art
formerly in the collection of Pierre-Jean Mariette

Giovanni Battista Gauli called Il Baciccio
Allegory of Love Tamed
1690s
drawing
Morgan Library, New York
formerly in the collection of Pierre-Jean Mariette

Claude Mellan
Two Landscapes
ca. 1624-36
drawings
Morgan Library, New York
formerly in the collection of Pierre-Jean Mariette