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Italian school
15th century
Copy of Two Antique Sculptures: Horse-Tamer and River Nile
ca. 1490-1500
Pen [or point of brush?] and brown ink, white opaque watercolor, over metalpoint or stylus indentations [?], on gray prepared paper.
6 9/16 x 10 1/8 inches (167 x 257 mm)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
IV, 5
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Watermark: none visible through lining.
Formerly attributed to Perugino (ca. 1450-1523); Giovanni Maria Falconetto (1468-1535); Florentine School; Davide Ghirlandaio.

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Inscribed on verso of mount, in pen and brown ink, with Richardson's pressmarks, "Zg. 66 / L. 68. / BB. 48. / Zk. / Lz. 50. r".; at lower center, in graphite, "22".

Provenance: 
Jonathan Richardson, Sr. (1665-1745), London (L. 2183); his son, Jonathan Richardson, Jr. (1694-1771), London; presumably his sale, London, Cock, 22 January 1747; Jan van Rymsdyk (c. 1720-1790), London (L. 2167); presumably his sale, London, Greenwood's, 29 March 1790; probably William Tighe (1766-1816), Woodstock House, Inistioge, Co. Kilkenny (acc. to Fairfax Murray); possibly by descent; Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), London and Florence; from whom purchased, through Galerie Alexandre Imbert, Rome, by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), New York, 1909; his son, J. P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), New York; by whom given to the library, 1924
Associated names: 

Perugino, approximately 1450-1523, Formerly attributed to.
Falconetto, G. M. (Gian Maria), 1468-1535, Formerly attributed to.
Ghirlandaio, Davide, 1452-1525, Formerly attributed to.
Richardson, Jonathan, 1665-1745, former owner.
Rymsdyk, Jan van, active 1750-1788, former owner.
Tighe, William, 1766-1816, 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. 5, repr. (as Florentine school); Degenhart and Schmitt 1960, 125-26, under no. 13 (as north Italian, second half of the fifteenth century); Russell 1986, 193 (as circle of Perugino, ca.1480-90); Bober and Rubinstein 1986, 102, no. 65B-a (as Umbrian, late fifteenth century); Nesselrath, in Rome 1988, 216, no. 64 (as Umbrian, second half of fifteenth century); Thielemann 1996, 33; Tonkovich 2005, 158; Verona 2006, 335-36, no. 93 (as Giovanni Maria Falconetto); Morét, 2008, 32 (as Giovanni Maria Falconetto); Bober and Rubinstein 2010, 112, no. 65B-a (as Umbrian, late fifteenth century).
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : drawings by the old masters formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, IV, 5.

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