Francesco Francia

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Francesco Francia

approximately 1450-1517

Scene of Antique Sacrifice

ca. 1500-1504

Brush and brown ink, with white opaque watercolor, over black chalk, on parchment; laid down on Ottley mount.

11 1/2 x 8 3/4 inches (291 x 224 mm)

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

I, 95

Inscription:

Inscribed on mount, beneath drawing, in pen and black ink, "Andrea Mantegna, / Pittore Padovano".

Provenance:

Este collection, Modena; W. Young Ottley, London (1771-1836; no mark; see Lugt 2662-2665); his sale, T. Philipe, London, 13 June 1814, lot 784 (as Andrea Mantegna); Sir Thomas Lawrence, London (1769-1830; Lugt 2445); Sir J. C. Robinson, London (1824-1913; Lugt 1433 at lower right, obliterated); 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:

Ottley, William Young, 1771-1836, former owner.
Lawrence, Thomas, Sir, 1769-1830, former owner.
Robinson, J. C. (John Charles), Sir, 1824-1913, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.

Bibliography:

Rhoda Eitel-Porter and and John Marciari, Italian Renaissance Drawings at the Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 2019, no. 14.
Selected references: Cartwright Ady 1881, 93; Fairfax Murray 1905-12, 1: no. 95; Frizzoni 1915a, 9, 11; Saxl 1938-39, 366n2; Winner 1968, 195ff.; Los Angeles 1976, no. 76; Northampton 1978, no. 108; Fortunati Pietrantonio 1986, 1:4, 18; Bologna 1988, no. 64; Faietti 1993, 179-80; Schulze Altcappenberg 1995, 94; Ekserdjian 1997, 266; Paris 2001, under no. 5; Jacobs 2005, 39; Munich 2008-9, no. 5; Bologna 2018, 66.
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, I, 95, repr.
100 Master drawings from the Morgan Library & Museum. München : Hirmer, 2008, no. 5, repr. [Rhoda Eitel-Porter]

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