Attributed to Lorenzo Costa

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Attributed to Lorenzo Costa
1460-1535
Dancing Girl Seen From the Back. Verso: Sketches of the Lower Half of a Draped Figure and of an Architectural Detail?
ca. 1500-1530
Pen and brown ink on laid paper.
5 1/8 x 2 15/16 inches (130 x 73 mm; maximum dimensions)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
I, 42

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Watermark: none.
Formerly attributed to Marcantonio Raimondi, Argini?, nr. Bologna ca. 1470/82-1527/34 Bologna?

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Inscribed on verso, at upper right, in red chalk, with Vallardi's number?,"G 66"; beneath this, in black chalk, "B. Luino"; at lower left, in black chalk, "Pa"; at lower right, in graphite, "3".

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Giuseppe Vallardi, (1784-1863), Milan (Lugt 1223); Aimé-Charles-Horace His de La Salle, (1795-1878), Paris (Lugt 1332); Philippe Huart, (d. about 1869), Paris (Lugt 2083); 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: 

Raimondi, Marcantonio, approximately 1480-approximately 1534, Formerly attributed to.
Vallardi, Giuseppe, 1784-1861, former owner.
His de la Salle, Aimé Charles Horace, 1795-1878, former owner.
Huart, Philippe, -1869, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Bramantino, approximately 1465-approximately 1530, Formerly attributed to.
Luini, Bernardino, 1475?-1533?, Formerly attributed to.

Bibliography: 

Schendel 1938, 134, no. 212; Colnaghi 1948, no. 14; Suida 1953, 58, no. 192; Brown 1966, 266, 365, no. 56a; Byam Shaw 1976, 1: 231, no. 862.
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, I, 42.

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