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Battista Franco
1510?-1561
A Roman General Receiving Four Envoys in a Military Camp Near a Town
ca. 1548-1560
Pen and brown ink and wash, squared in black chalk, on two pieces of paper joined vertically at center.
8 x 16 1/4 inches (202 x 412 mm)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
IV, 72
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Watermark: none visible through lining.
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Inscribed on verso of mount, "Given me by S.r J~: Thornhill. Oct: 1724; J: B~ N. 134 / 16 1/4 by 8; Lot 51-H".
Provenance:
Sir James Thornhill, London (1675-1734); Jonathan Richardson Sr. (1665-1745), London (Lugt 2183); John Barnard (d. 1784), London (Lugt 1419 and 1420); Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), London and Florence; from whom purchased J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), New York (no mark; see Lugt 1509); J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), New York.
Associated names:
Thornhill, James, Sir, 1675-1734, former owner.
Richardson, Jonathan, 1665-1745, former owner.
Barnard, John, 1709-1784, 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: Fairfax Murray, 1905-12, 4: no. 72; Ongpin, in New York and London 2002, under no. 4; Lauder 2009, 227, under no. 58, 229, under no. 59.
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, IV, 72, repr.
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