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Jean-Baptiste Le Prince
1734-1781
Study of a Peasant Woman, Facing Right
Black and red chalk on paper.
5 3/4 x 3 5/8 inches (146 x 92 mm)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
I, 291
Notes:
This study is on the same mat as I, 291a.
Provenance:
Lord Hampden (?) sale, London, 27 June 1827 (according to inscription on mount); 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:
Hampden, Lord, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Bibliography:
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, I, 291, repr.
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