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Thomas Gainsborough
1727-1788
A Seated Youth
ca. 1748-1750
Graphite with smudging, on laid paper.
6 3/16 x 5 1/8 inches (157 x 130 mm)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
III, 59a
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:
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Bibliography:
Bolzoni, Marco S. Thomas Gainsborough : Experiments in Drawings. New York : The Morgan Library & Museum, 2018, p. 42, fig. 25, repr. and p. 79, no. 6, repr.
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, III, 59a, repr.
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