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Holy Family Surrounded by Worshipping Figures

After Polidoro da Caravaggio
approximately 1495-approximately 1543

Holy Family Surrounded by Worshipping Figures

9 1/4 x 13 3/8 inches (234 x 341 mm)
Pen and black ink and wash, with opaque white lead watercolor (partially oxidized), on orange-brown prepared laid paper; strip of 25 mm added to lower edge of paper by artist before execution.
IV, 18

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

Notes
Watermark: none.
This study is a good copy of the lower section of a drawing, formerly in the Suida-Manning collection and now in the Jack S. Blanton Museum, Austin, Texas.
Associated names
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. P. (John Pierpont), 1867-1943, former owner.
Bibliography
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, IV, 18 repr. (as Polidoro da Caravaggio).
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department