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Francesco da Ponte Bassano
1549-1592
Kneeling Woman with Tools in Her Hands
Black chalk, with white chalk, on light brown paper.
11 x 14 3/4 inches (279 x 375 mm)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
I, 75a
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Watermark: none visible through lining.
Inscription:
Inscribed on verso of lining, at lower center, in graphite, "71; 10"; on mount, underneath the drawing, in pen and brown ink, "[plus sign in a circle] 62".
Provenance:
Possibly Sir Henry Hawley; his sale Christie's, London, 16 July 1891, part of lot 211 as Bassano "Study of a Figure, by Bassano; and other drawings [9 in total]"; (bought by Murray for £2.6.0); 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:
Bassano, Leandro da Ponte, 1557-1622, Alternate attribution.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Bibliography:
Toledo 1940, no. 72; Tietze and Tietze-Conrat 1944, 45, no. 98.
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, I, 75a, repr.
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