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Italian School

Lower Right Arm with Sleeve, Casting a Shadow

Red chalk on paper.

3 1/16 x 6 3/8 inches (78 x 162 mm)

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

IV, 21b

Notes:

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

Inscription:

Inscription on verso of lining, in graphite, "9".

Provenance:

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:

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.)

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