Attributed to Francesco Melzi

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1491 or 1493-approximately 1570

Three Male Grotesque Heads

Pen and brown ink, over traces of black chalk?, on paper.

1 3/4 x 4 1/16 inches (44 x 103 mm)

Gift of Edward Fowles.

1968.11

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Watermark: Unidentified fragment on edge of sheet.

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Earl of Pembroke, Wiltshire (no mark; see Lugt S. 2636b?); sale, London, Sotheby's, 10 July 1917, no. 466 with other drawings; Edward Fowles.

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Associated names:

Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519, After.
Pembroke, Earl of, former owner.
Fowles, Edward, former owner.

Bibliography:

Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Sixteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1969-1971. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1973, p. 117.

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