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Female Martyr Overcoming Satan

Paolo Farinati
1524-1606

Female Martyr Overcoming Satan

1574
16 3/8 x 10 5/8 inches (417 x 269 mm)
Pen and brown ink and wash, with lead white opaque watercolor, over black chalk, on blue paper.
IV, 79a

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

Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed on verso at upper right, in pen and brown ink, "27 nov 1574 / 9 dece[m]bre"; at upper left, "K no 34"; on recto of mount, at lower center, just beneath drawing, in graphite, "Paolo Farinato. 1522-1594".
Watermark: Letters "AP".
Associated names
Hone, Nathaniel, 1718-1784, former owner.
MacGowan, John, -1803, former owner.
Lawrence, Thomas, Sir, 1769-1830, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department