Pierre-Jean Mariette

French, 1694 - 1774

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Domenico Campagnola, Landscape with a Boy Fishing, c. 1516, pen and brown ink over leadpoint on laid eighteenth-century (Mariette) mount, Rosenwald Collection, 1950.20.1

Landscape with a Boy Fishing

Domenico Campagnola · c. 1516 · pen and brown ink over leadpoint on laid eighteenth-century (Mariette) mount ·  Accession ID  1950.20.1

Albrecht Dürer, Portrait of an Unknown Man, probably 1510, silverpoint heightened with white on brown prepared paper, Rosenwald Collection, 1943.3.3699

Portrait of an Unknown Man

Albrecht Dürer · probably 1510 · silverpoint heightened with white on brown prepared paper ·  Accession ID  1943.3.3699

Giulio Romano, The Four Elements, c. 1530, pen and brown ink with brown wash on laid paper, Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Patrons' Permanent Fund, 2007.111.95

The Four Elements

Giulio Romano · c. 1530 · pen and brown ink with brown wash on laid paper ·  Accession ID  2007.111.95

Drawn with brown ink and shaded with tan washes on cream-white paper, two bearded men wearing robes, with a smaller, nude, winged boy between them, fill this vertical drawing. At the center top of the paper, the angel faces us, gazing down to our left with open mouth and eyebrows drawn together. He has curly hair and lifts his muscular right arm, on our left, with his index finger pointed upward. Crosshatched lines define his body, and quick, curved lines shade his outstretched wings. To our right, one man stands with his body facing the center of the sheet but he turns his head to look up off the top right corner. He has curling hair, a wide mustache, and perhaps a goatee, though his chin is partially hidden by a dark spot on the paper. He has broad shoulders, a thick neck, large hands, and a hint of a muscular leg under his flowing, voluminous robes. He holds a flat, oblong object, possibly a stone tablet, perched on his slightly bent left knee. Seated to our left, the other man faces and looks at us. He also grasps a flat, tablet-like object but holds it up, braced on his right thigh, to our left, and points to it with his other hand. This man also is solidly built and swathed in robes, with a hood over his curly hair. He leans forward, knees apart, and stares out with his brows deeply furrowed. His downturned mouth is set in a bushy, curly beard. Near the bottom of the picture, the bare feet of the two men emerge from the folds of their robes. Touches of white washes on the folds of the robes create a sense of light coming from above and to our right, and charcoal lines reinforce the shadows. A grid is lightly drawn in red chalk lines over the composition. A black stamp in the lower left has the letters “E.C” and another at the center reads, “H de T. STAT.”
Raphael, The Prophets Hosea and Jonah, c. 1510, pen and brown ink with brown wash over charcoal and blind stylus, heightened with white gouache and squared for transfer with blind stylus and red chalk, on laid paper, The Armand Hammer Collection, 1991.217.4

The Prophets Hosea and Jonah

Raphael · c. 1510 · pen and brown ink with brown wash over charcoal and blind stylus, heightened with white gouache and squared for transfer with blind stylus and red chalk, on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1991.217.4

Nicolas Poussin, Road along a Winding River, c. 1648?, pen and brown ink, squared in black chalk, on laid paper, Gift of Dr. and Mrs. George Baer, 1986.96.2

Road along a Winding River

Nicolas Poussin · c. 1648? · pen and brown ink, squared in black chalk, on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1986.96.2

Agostino Carracci, Woodland River with a Boat, c. 1590, pen and brown ink on laid paper, Gift of Robert H. and Clarice Smith, 1978.70.1

Woodland River with a Boat

Agostino Carracci · c. 1590 · pen and brown ink on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1978.70.1

Bernardino Poccetti, The Death of the Blessed Buonagiunta Manetti, c. 1612, pen and brown ink with brown wash over black chalk, squared for transfer with red chalk on light brown laid paper, Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Patrons' Permanent Fund, 2007.111.144

The Death of the Blessed Buonagiunta Manetti

Bernardino Poccetti · c. 1612 · pen and brown ink with brown wash over black chalk, squared for transfer with red chalk on light brown laid paper ·  Accession ID  2007.111.144

Bibliography

1775

  • Basan, François. Catalogue raisonné des différens objects de curiosités dans les sciences et arts, qui composoient le cabinet de fue M. Mariette. Paris, 1775

1877

  • Clément de Ris, Louis Torterat. Les amateurs d'autrefois. Paris, 1877: 315-341 (reprint Geneva, 1973).

1973

  • Dumesnil, Antoine Jules. Histoire des plus célèbres amateurs français et de leurs relations avec les artistes Geneva, 1973:I [Facsimile reprint of the 1857-1858 edition published by Renouard, Paris]

1981

  • Bacou, Roseline. The famous Italian drawings from the Mariette collection at the Louvre in Paris. Milan, 1981