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Lower Right Arm with Sleeve, Casting a Shadow

Italian School

Lower Right Arm with Sleeve, Casting a Shadow

early 17th century
3 1/16 x 6 3/8 inches (78 x 162 mm)
Red chalk on paper.
IV, 21b

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

Notes
Formerly attributed to Jacopo da Pontromo, Pontormo 1494-1556 Florence.
Watermark: none visible through lining.
Description

The present drawing is placed on the same mount as another study by the same hand, both of which were cataloged as by Jacopo Pontormo while in the Fairfax Murray collection, and later published as Rosso Fiorentino by Bernard Berenson. It is more likely by a seventeenth-century hand.1

Footnotes:

  1. Morgan Library & Museum, New York, inv. IV, 21a.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscription on verso of lining, in graphite, "9".
Associated names
Rosso Fiorentino, 1494-1540, Formerly attributed to.
Pontormo, Jacopo da, 1494-1556, Formerly attributed to.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Bibliography
Selected references: Fairfax Murray 1905-12, 4: no. 21 (as Jacopo Pontormo); Berenson 1938, 2: 315, no. 2448E (as Rosso Fiorentino).
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : drawings by the old masters formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, IV, 21b, repr.
Dervaux, Isabelle. Drawing connections: Baselitz, Kelly, Penone, Rockburne, and the old masters. New York: Morgan Library & Museum, 2007, p. 39, 42 (repr.)
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department