Marcantonio Raimondi

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Marcantonio Raimondi
approximately 1480-approximately 1534
Young Man Tied to Trunk of Tree. Verso: Various Sketches, Including Head of a Man and Putto Astride a Helmet
ca. 1500
Pen and brown ink; verso: pen and brown ink.
6 1/2 x 3 5/8 inches (165 x 92 mm)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
I, 93b

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Watermark: none.
Formerly attributed to Anonymous, Italian School, Ferrara, 16th. cent.

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Inscribed on verso, at upper edge, in black chalk, "P/324"; at upper left, in black chalk, "23".

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Captain Carlo Prayer, Milan (1826-1900; Lugt 2044, recto and verso); 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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Anonymous, Italian School, 16th cent, Formerly attributed to.
Prayer, Carlo, 1826-1900, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.

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Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, I, 93b.

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