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Italian School

17th century

Right Arm and Hand, with Palm Turned Upwards

Red chalk on paper.

3 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches (78 x 141 mm)

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

IV, 21a

Notes:

Watermark: none visible through lining.
The drawing, which is placed on the same mount as Morgan IV, 21a (apparently by the same hand), was catalogued as by Jacopo Pontormo while in the Fairfax Murray collection, and later published as Rosso Fiorentino by Bernard Berenson. It is more likely by a seventeenth-century hand.

Inscription:

Inscription on verso of lining, at lower center, in graphite, "g".

Provenance:

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:

Pontormo, Jacopo da, 1494-1556, Formerly attributed to the Circle of.
Rosso Fiorentino, 1494-1540, 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:

Selected references: Fairfax Murray 1905-12, 4: no. 21 (as Jacopo Pontormo); Berenson 1938, 2: 315, no. 2448E (as Rosso Fiorentino); Ames 1964, no. 28 (as Pontormo).
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : drawings by the old masters formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, IV, 21b, repr.
Dervaux, Isabelle. Drawing connections: Baselitz, Kelly, Penone, Rockburne, and the old masters. New York: Morgan Library & Museum, 2007, p. 39, 42 (repr.)

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