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François Lemoyne
1688-1737
Daphnis Standing Before the Sleeping Chloe
Black and white chalk, on blue paper; drawing mounted overall to secondary support.
8 3/4 x 10 15/16 inches (222 x 263 mm)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
III, 92
Notes:
Watermark: none visible through secondary support.
This drawing is on the same mat as Acc. No. III, 92a. Both sheets are preparatory works for two oval pendant paintings that Lemoyne executed in 1721 (now in a private collection).
Provenance:
Gersaint sale, Paris, 25 May 1750, no. 336 ("Deux pastorales tirées du Roman de Daphnis et Chloë"); 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:
Gersaint, E. F. (Edme-François), -1750, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Bibliography:
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, III, 92, repr.
Denison, Cara D. French Drawings, 1550-1825. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984, no. 43 (along with III, 92a).
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