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Francesco Albani
1578-1660
The Hesperides. Design for a Frontispiece of Book On the Culture of Fruit
Oil on linen.
11 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches (298 x 216 mm)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
IV, 164
Provenance:
Coll. Sergardi; 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:
Sergardi, 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, IV, 164, repr.
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