Francesco Salviati

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Francesco Salviati
1510-1563
Head and Shoulders of a Bearded Man (Baccio Bandinelli?)
ca. 1547
Black chalk on paper.
11 15/16 x 9 7/16 inches (301 x 240 mm)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
I, 6b

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Watermark: none.
Formerly attributed to Baccio Bandinelli and Anonymous Italian School, 16th century from Florentine.

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Inscribed on verso, at lower center, in pen and brown ink, "Salviati"; in graphite, "m. heemskerck"; on fragment of old mount, pasted onto current mount, inscribed in pen and brown ink by Jonathan Richardson Jr., "Baccio Bandinelli / Il suo Ritratto / N. There was written upon an Old Pasting of this Drawing, in a good Ancient Hand, that it was / the Portrait of Baccio Bandinelli by / Martin Heimskirk; which is not unlikely, He being in / Italy in the time of Baccio, & of the Age of the Portrait; which is evidently Baccio's as ap / pear by That of Giorgio Vasari's Life of him (Baccio 1487...1559. Heimskirk 1498...1574). / It hath also been said to be of Cecchino Salviati; which may very well be too, He being ac- / tually of the School of Baccio, & of a Time that agrees (1507...1563). This name is now / on the back, & it is in his Stile of Finishing".

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Jonathan Richardson Jr., London (1694-1771; Lugt 2170); Richard Cosway, London (1740-1821; Lugt 629); hisa sale, Stanley, London, 15 February 1822, lot 344 (Baccio Bandinelli, "His own Portrait, in chalk"); Sir Thomas H. Crawley-Boevey, 5th Baronet (1837-1912), Flaxley Abbey, Gloucestershire; his sale, London, Christie's, 30 July 1877 (according to an inscription on old mount, now removed); Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), London and Florence; from whom purchased through Galerie Alexandre Imbert, Rome, in 1909 by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), New York (no mark; see Lugt 1509); his son, J. P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), New York.
Associated names: 

Bandinelli, Baccio, 1493-1560, Formerly attributed to.
Anonymous, Italian School, 16th cent, Formerly attributed to.
Richardson, Jonathan, 1694-1771, former owner.
Cosway, Richard, 1740-1821, former owner.
Crawley-Boevey, Thomas H., 1837-1912, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Morgan, J. P. (John Pierpont), 1867-1943, former owner.

Bibliography: 

Rhoda Eitel-Porter and and John Marciari, Italian Renaissance Drawings at the Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 2019, no. 94.
Selected references: Benesch 1952, 244-48 (as attributed to Melchior Lorch); Baltimore 1961, no. 69; Cheney 1963, 2:531; New York 1965-66, no. 102; Vitzthum 1966, 110; Bussmann 1969, 67-68; Stockholm 1970, no. 36; Ragghianti Collobi 1971, 62; Cheney 1981, no. 4; New York 1981, no. 23; Mortari 1992, no. 406; Rome and Paris 1998, no. 91; Forlani Tempesti 2001, 538n25; Munich 2008-9, no. 16.
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, I, 6b.
Stampfle, Felice, and Jacob Bean. Drawings from New York collections. I: The Italian Renaissance. New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1965, no. pp. 63-64, no. 102, repr.
100 Master drawings from the Morgan Library & Museum. München : Hirmer, 2008, no. 16, repr. [Rhoda Eitel-Porter]

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