Filippino Lippi

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Filippino Lippi
-1504
Job Visited by His Three Friends, with the Visitation in the Background
ca. 1500
Pen and brown ink and wash, over black chalk, on laid paper; verso: five horizontal ruled lines in pen and brown ink.
4 1/8 inches (106 mm; diameter)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
IV, 3

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Watermark: none.

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Inscribed on verso in red chalk, "Sogliano"; in blue chalk, "535"; in graphite, "filipinno(?)"; in graphite, "Fente Guignon(?) Marcel(?) [illegible name]"; and, in graphite, "141."

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Comte Moritz von Fries, Vienna (1777-1826; Lugt 2903); Edward Habich, Boston and Kassel (1818-1901; Lugt 862); his sale, Stuttgart, H.G. Gutekunst, 27-29 April 1899, lot 419; Colnaght, London; 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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Fries, Moritz, Graf von, 1777-1826, former owner.
Habich, Edward, 1818-1901, 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. 24.
Selected references: Berenson 1903, 2: no. 1272; Fairfax Murray 1905-12, 4: no. 3; Frizzoni 1905, 244-45; Eisenmann 1924, pl. 16; Scharf 1935, 80, 119, no. 174; Berenson 1938, 2:151, no. 1353c; Berenson 1961, 2: no. 1353c; Washington and elsewhere 1972-73, under no. 40B; Shoemaker 1975, no. 122; Byam Shaw 1976, 1:43; New York 1997-98, no. 95; Zambrano and Nelson 2004, 48-49, 68n30; Nelson 2011, 214.
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, IV, 3, repr.
Goldner, George R., Carmen C. Bambach et. al., The Drawings of Filippino Lippi and His Circle, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1997, p. 307, no. 95, repr.

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