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Italian School
16th century
Sheet of Grotesques, Including Bird on a Garland. Verso: Sheet of Studies: Grotesques, Cuirass, Fountain (?), Atlantids and Standing Bearded Man
ca. 1538-1547
Pen and dark brown ink, over red chalk, on paper; verso: pen and dark brown ink, over red chalk.
6 1/8 x 4 3/8 inches (157 x 110 mm)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
II, 26a
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Watermark: none.
One of thirty-four sixteenth-century Italian drawings formerly mounted in a nineteenth-century album, the Cesare da Sesto Album, but not by him.
Inscription:
Inscribed at lower right, in pen and brown ink, "Roma"; at lower left, in pen and brown ink, "Roma In / Palatio"; as labels, in pen and brown ink, "or; groy(?); zoof (?); primatio; insznat(?); Ruct (?)"; on verso, at upper right, in pen and brown ink, "florentia / Roma / genua".
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.
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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.
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