Inscription
recto: upper right in pen and black ink: 1540 / HSB; upper left in pen and black ink: QVO NON PENETRAT / AVT QVID NON EX: / COGOTAT PIETAS ["Where does piety not penetrate or what does it not devise."]
Marks and Labels
recto: Adolphe Mouriau (Lugt 1853)
Provenance
Adolphe Mouriau (1805-1865?), Belgium (Lugt 1853); Jacqueline Strölin, Lausanne, Switzerland; purchased (via Bruno de Bayser) by Ian Woodner, New York, November 1985; by inheritance to his daughters, Andrea and Dian Woodner, New York, 1990; gift to NGA, 1998.
Exhibition History
- 1987
- Master Drawings: The Woodner Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1987, no. 56.
- 1990
- Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1990, no. 68.
- 1995
- The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995-1996, no. 46.
- 2006
- Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2006 - 2007.
- 2017
- The Woodner Collections: Master Drawings from Seven Centuries, NGA, 2017.
Bibliography
- 1995
- The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995-1996: no. 46.
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