Giulio Romano

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Giulio Romano

1499-1546

Jupiter and Ganymede

1527

Pen and brown ink and wash, on paper.

5 7/8 x 5 5/8 inches (148 x 143 mm; maximum dimensions)

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

IV, 15

Notes:

Watermark: none.

Inscription:

Inscribed in upper left corner, in pen and brown ink, "140"; on verso at center, in pen and brown ink, "GFM"; at lower left, in pen and brown ink, "di giulio romano".

Provenance:

Isaac Walraven (1686-1765), Amsterdam; his sale, De Winter & Yver, Amsterdam, 14 October 1765, lot 85, bought by Fokke (according to Py; probably Simon Fokke [1712-1784], Amsterdam); 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:

Walraven, Izaak, 1686-1765, former owner.
Fokke, Simon, 1712-1784, 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:

Rhoda Eitel-Porter and and John Marciari, Italian Renaissance Drawings at the Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 2019, no. 42.
Selected references: Fairfax Murray 1905-12, 4:15; Hartt 1958, no. 224; Cambridge 1962, no. 12; Russell 1977, 16; Kempter 1980, 46; Saslow 1986, 138n78; Mantua 1989, 284, 396; Vienna 1989-90, 164; Belluzzi 1998, 1:4-15; New York 1999, no. 23.
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, IV, 15, repr.

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