Heir · Donor
J. P. Morgan Jr.
fl. 1913–1917 · United States
Banker, active 1913–1917. Gave to Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Life and work
- 1917By the end of 1917 the medieval collections lent to the Metropolitan Museum by his father were largely included in 'the munificent gift of over three thousand objects presented by his son, J. P. Morgan' (Rorimer and Forsyth 1954). The Cyprus Treasure plates carry the credit line 'Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917' in the same Bulletin, and the Morgan part of the second Lambousa treasure (six David plates, a niello cross-monogram plate, much jewellery) is at the Met. Leader says only 'given by his heirs'.
New YorkRorimer & Forsyth 1954Leader 2000, p. 407Ross 1957, pp. 247-248
Connections
1 personFamily
- Heir of John Pierpont Morgan1913–1917
- Child of John Pierpont Morganprobably1917
Sources
- 1.Ruth E. Leader (2000). “The David Plates Revisited: Transforming the Secular in Early Byzantium”. The Art Bulletin 82, 407-427. College Art Association. Online
- 2.M. C. Ross (1957). “A Byzantine Gold Medallion at Dumbarton Oaks”. Dumbarton Oaks Papers 11, 247-261.
- 3.James J. Rorimer, William H. Forsyth (1954). “The Medieval Galleries”. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, New Series 12, 121-144. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Online