Lorenzo Costa

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Lorenzo Costa

1460-1535

Head of a Bearded Man Looking Down to the Right, and a Hand

1504

Brush and black ink and wash, with white opaque watercolor, over metalpoint, on gray prepared paper.

4 1/4 x 4 3/8 inches (107 x 110 mm)

Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.

IV, 6

Notes:

Watermark: none visible through lining.
Formerly attributed to Anonymous, Italian School, Umbrian, 15th century.

Provenance:

Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), London and Florence; London, from whom purchased in 1910 by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913; no mark; see Lugt 1509); J. P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), New York.

Associated names:

Anonymous, Italian School, 15th cent., Formerly attributed to.
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. 16.
Selected references: Fairfax Murray 1905-12, 4: no. 6 (as Umbrian school); Popham and Pouncey 1950, 1: under no. 43; Brown 1966, 164, 346; Negro and Roio 2001, under no. 41.
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, IV, 6, repr.

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