Attributed to Leone Leoni

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Attributed to Leone Leoni
1509-1590
Four Profile Studies for the Head of Andrea Doria and Three Sketches of a Horse Tamer. Verso: Profile Study of Andrea Doria, a Centaur, and an Offset of the Medici Coat of Arms, Set Within a Diamond Ring
ca. 1538-1541
Pen and brown ink on laid paper; verso: pen and brown ink and red chalk.
5 15/16 x 7 13/16 inches (151 x 198 mm)
Purchased as the gift of the Fellows.
1960.11

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Formerly attributed to Christoph Weiditz (ca. 1500-1559); Perino del Vaga (1501-1547); Guglielmo della Porta (1534-1577).

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Inscribed at upper right, in pen and brown ink, "andreae doriae".
Watermark: Tips of two crossed arrows (cf. Briquet 6299), fragment.

Provenance: 
Paul Adeneid Frasheri Bey (1904-1987), Geneva (his collector's mark in purple at upper left; Lugt 4019); Hans M. Calmann (1899-1982), London; purchased by The Morgan Library & Museum in London in 1960.
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Weiditz, Hans, approximately 1495-approximately 1536, Formerly attributed to.
Perino, del Vaga, 1500 or 1501-1547, Formerly attributed to.
Della Porta, Guglielmo, 1515?-1577, Formerly attributed to.
Bey, Paul Adaneidi Frasheri, 1904-1987, former owner.
Calmann, Hans M., former owner.

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Selected references: Fellows Report 1960, 48-50 (as Leoni); Washington, New York and elsewhere 1965-66, 62-63, no. 100 (as attributed to Leoni); Jones 1979, 59-60, (as Leoni); Bloomington and elsewhere 1983-84, 28-29, 116-17, no. 7 (as Leoni); Boccardo 1989, 117, note 44, (as Leoni); Washington, New York and Elsewhere 1994, 154, under no. 50 (as Leoni), 224, under no. 90 (as Christoph Weiditz); Attwood 1997, 3-9 (as attributed to Leoni); Attwood 2003, 1: 94, under no. 5 (as attributed to Leoni); Pollard and Luciano 2007, 1: 490, under no. 489 (as ascribed to Leoni); Riebesell, in Genoa 2004, 76, note 16 (as Leoni); Zanuso, in Madrid 2012, 13 (as Perino del Vaga or Guglielmo della Porta); Boston 2014, 190-93, no. 25 (as Leoni).
Adams, Frederick B., Jr. Tenth Annual Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1960, p. 48-50.
Stampfle, Felice, and Jacob Bean. Drawings from New York collections. I: The Italian Renaissance. New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1965, p. 62, no. 100, repr.
A review of acquisitions, 1949-1968 / Pierpont Morgan Library. New York : The Library, 1969, p. 153.

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