FJK 043

School of Northern Italy

Memento Mori

ca. 1450-1460
5 13/64 × 3 37/64 in. (132 × 91 mm)

Medium
Bistre wash, inscriptions in pen and metallo-gallic ink on off-white paper laid down on antique laid paper

Collector’s mark “J.C. Robinson” upper right (Lugt 1433)

Inscriptions in brown ink:
La morte chi no perdona a niuno
La morte vene et il tempo passa et a chi a mal fato il mal anno et la mala pasea
Non semper viole no semper lilia floret Sed riget assidua spina relicta rosa

Origin

Sir John Charles Robinson Collection, London (1824-1913)
John Malcolm Collection
Hon. A. E. Gathorne-Hardy Collection
Geoffrey Gathorne-Hardy Collection
Hon. Robert Gathorne-Hardy Collection
Jan Krugier Collection, Monaco (acquired in February 1984 under School of Siena), JK 3836
Jan Krugier Foundation

Bibliography

Descriptive Catalogue od Drawings in the Possession of the Hon. A. E. Gathorne-Hardy, 1902, London, p. 14, no. 17.

DÜCKERS Alexander, Linie, Licht und Schatten, Meisterzeichnungen und Skulpturen der Sammlung Jan und Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, Berlin: G & H Verlag, 1999, Catalogue raisonné, p. 417, ill.

Exhibitions

London, P. & D. Colnaghi; Oxford, The Ashmolean Museum, Loan Exhibition of Drawings by Old Masters from the Collection Mr. Geoffrey Gathorne-Hardy, 1971-1972, no. 69.

Venice, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, The Timeless Eye. Master Drawings from the Jan and Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski Collection, 1999, p. 16, no. 2, color ill. p. 17.

Madrid, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Miradas sin Tiempo. Dibujos, Pinturas y Esculturas de la Coleccion Jan y Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, 2000, p. 32, no. 2, color ill. p. 33.

Paris, Musée Jacquemart-André, La Passion du dessin. Collection Jan et Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, 2002, Addendum, no. 2, color ill. 

Munich, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Das Ewige Auge - Von Rembrandt bis Picasso. Meisterwerke aus der Sammlung Jan Krugier und Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, 2007, p. 20, no. 2, color ill. p. 21.