Pellegrino Pellegrini

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Pellegrino Pellegrini
1527-1596
Two Seated Barbarian Captives
1549-1550
Pen and brown ink and wash, with white opaque watercolor, over black chalk, on paper. Vertical fold at center. Laid down on old mount.
10 7/8 x 15 9/16 inches (274 x 395 mm)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
I, 37
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Watermark: none visible through lining.
Formerly attributed to Daniele da Volterra.

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Possibly John Campell, 4th Duke of Argyll (1693-1770), London (according to Gere 1971); Jonathan Richardson, Sr. (1665-1745), London (Lugt 2184); 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: 

Daniele, da Volterra, approximately 1509-1566, Formerly attributed to.
Argyll, John Campbell, Duke of, approximately 1693-1770, former owner.
Richardson, Jonathan, 1665-1745, 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.

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Selected references: Fairfax Murray 1905-12, 1: no. 37; Gere 1971, 82; Dibbits 1998, 30.
Rhoda Eitel-Porter and and John Marciari, Italian Renaissance Drawings at the Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 2019, no. 107.
Charles Fairfax Murray, Collection of Drawings by the Old Masters formed by C. Fairfax Murray (J. Pierpont Morgan Collection), 4 vols., London, 1905-1912, I, no. 37, repr.
John A. Gere, Il manierismo a Roma, Milan, 1971, p. 82, repr. pl. IX.
Taco D.W. Dibbits, "Pellegrino Tibaldi in Ancona: Two new drawings in red chalk," Apollo, vol. 148, no. 441, November 1998, p. 30.

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