Attributed to Giulio Romano

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Attributed to Giulio Romano
1499-1546
St. Sebastian, With His Raised Right Arm Tied to a Branch of a Tree
Pen and brown ink on paper; squared in black chalk.
9 7/8 x 4 1/8 inches (250 x 105 mm)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
I, 60
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Watermark: none.

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Inscribed on verso at lower right, on top of an illegible inscription in red chalk, in pen and brown ink, "Tiziano".

Provenance: 
Jean-Baptist-Joseph Wicar (no mark; see Lugt 2568); Sir Thomas Lawrence, London (1769-1830; Lugt 2445); Samuel Woodburn (no mark; see Lugt 2584); 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
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Anonymous, Italian School, 16th cent., Formerly attributed to.
Titian, approximately 1488-1576, Formerly attributed to.
Wicar, Jean-Baptiste Joseph, 1762-1834, former owner.
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.

Bibliography: 

Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, I, 60, repr.
Gere, John A. Drawings by Raphael and his Circle from British and North American Collections. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1987, no. 64.

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