Parmigianino

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Parmigianino
1503-1540
Seated Virgin with Child Above to the Right
ca. 1520-1524
Red chalk on paper.
8 3/16 x 5 1/2 inches (208 x 139 mm)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
IV, 41
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Watermark: Indecipherable fragment.

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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.
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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.

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Selected references: Fairfax Murray 1905-12, 4: no. 41; Popham 1971, 1: 123, no. 315; Gnann 2000, 50; Gnann 2007, 1: 377, no. 175.
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, IV, 41, repr.

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