Giampietrino

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Giampietrino

active 16th century

Holy Family

ca. 1525-1535

Black and white chalk on two sheets of laid paper joined horizontally at center; pricked for transfer.

34 3/8 x 25 5/8 inches (873 x 651 mm)

Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.

II, 1

Notes:

Watermark: none visible through lining.

Provenance:

Giuseppe Appiani (1740-1812), Milan, by 1811; 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.

Associated names:

Appiani, Giuseppe, 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. 49.
Selected references: Fairfax Murray 1905-12, 2: no. 1; Los Angeles 1949, no. 93; Bloomington and elsewhere 1958, no. 21; Bacall 1968, no. 25; Lawrence 1986, no. 6; Milan 1987-88, 17; Pedretti and Trutty-Coohill 1993, no. 42; Geddo 1994-95, 67; Marani 1996, 26:441; New York 2002-3, 177; Scrase 2011, no. 263; Rinaldi 2013a, 218-21.
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, II, 1 and introduction, repr.

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