Attributed to Luca Cambiaso

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Attributed to Luca Cambiaso
1527-1585
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Pen and brown ink and wash, on paper; framing lines in pen and brown ink.
10 7/8 x 7 1/4 inches (276 x 185 mm)
Purchased as the gift of the Fellows.
1958.22
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Associated name: Giulio Benso, 1592-1668.

Inscription: 

Very faintly inscribed at lower left, in graphite, "Cambiaso"; on verso at upper center, in graphite, "No 63"; at lower right, in pencil, "oudpapier / als AvanDyk".
Watermark: Pilgrim, holding staff, inside circle, above letters "GR". Similar to Briquet 7593 (Draguignan, Provence, Cote d'Azur, 1561), standing man wearing hat.

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Sale, Paris (according to Weitzner), as Annibale Carracci; Julius H. Weitzner (1896-1986), New York and London (owned jointly with Robert Lehel), from whom purchased.
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Associated names: 

Benso, Giulio, 1592-1668, associated name.
Weitzner, Julius, -1986, former owner.
Lehel, Robert, former owner.

Bibliography: 

Pierpont Morgan Library. Review of Acquisitions, 1949-1968. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1969, p. 135.
Adams, Frederick B., Jr., comp. Ninth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1958 & 1959. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1959, p. 93.

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