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Maso Finiguerra
1426-1464
Male Nude, Standing, with Arms Positioned as if to Shoot an Arrow
ca. 1450-1460
Pen and brown ink and wash, inscribed with stylus, on laid paper.
8 x 4 3/8 inches (203 x 113 mm)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
I, 4:1
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:
Pollaiuolo, Formerly attributed to the school of.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Bibliography:
Rhoda Eitel-Porter and and John Marciari, Italian Renaissance Drawings at the Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 2019, no. 18.
Selected references: Fairfax Murray 1905-12, 1:4; Berenson 1938, 2:271, no. 1947C; Ortolani 1948, 171, no. 14; Berenson 1961, 2: no. 1947C; Fenyö 1963, 92; Degenhart and Schmitt 1968-2010, 1: under no. 620, 614; Kubiak 1974, 102, 184; Melli 1995, 53, 99, no. 147; Angelucci and Cordellier 2016, 24n34.
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, I, 4, repr.
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