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School of Benvenuto Cellini
1500-1571
Design for a Dish: Standing Male Nude Holding a Scallop Shell on His Shoulders, and Other Sketches. Verso: Acanthus Scrolls with Male Nude
Pen and brown ink over black chalk, with red chalk, on paper; traces of framing lines in brown ink; verso: pen and brown ink, over black chalk.
8 3/8 x 5 7/8 inches (212 x 149 mm)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
I, 34a (recto)
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Watermark: none.
Formerly attributed to Manno di Bastiano Sbarri.
Provenance:
Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830), London (Lugt 2445); Samuel Woodburn (1786-1853), London (L. 2584); his sale, Christie's, London, 5 June 1860, lot 256; purchased by "Enson" (according to an annotation in the Woodburn catalog, Christie's archive); his sale, London, Sotheby's, Wilkinson & Hodge, 20 June 1891, no. 216 as Benvenuto Cellini, one of two drawings; to Murray £7.7.0; 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:
Sbarri, Manno, di Sebastiano, approximately 1510-1576, Formerly attributed to.
Lawrence, Thomas, Sir, 1769-1830, former owner.
Woodburn, Samuel, 1785 or 1786-1853, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Morgan, J. P. (John Pierpont), 1867-1943, former owner.
Bibliography:
Selected references: Planiczig and Voss 1920, 6, under no. 15, (as Cesare da Sesto); Ward-Jackson 1979, 1: 213, under no. 466 (as Lombard mid-16th century).
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