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Netherlandish School

16th century

Head of a Papal Guard

Silverpoint on light gray prepared ground, with opaque white, on laid paper.

5 7/8 x 4 7/16 inches (148 x 113 mm)

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

I, 261

Notes:

Watermark: none.

Inscription:

Inscribed on verso, in an old Italian hand, in brown ink, but crossed out, "Maestri D ... / Libro de Disegni fatto dal ..."; in another old Italian hand, "Cas ... f ... ggo d ... Ca / ...".

Provenance:

George Skene of Skene; his sale, Sotheby's, 28 April 1898, lot 116 ("Head of a Man, in silver-point on prepared paper"; Italian master of the 16th century; to Colnaghi for £10.5.0); Edward Habich (no mark; see Lugt 862); his sale, Stuttgart, Gutekunst, 27-28 April 1899, lot 15, repr. (Italian master of the first rank; to Gutekunst for DM300); 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:

Beham, Barthel, 1502-1540, School of, Formerly attributed to.
Skene, George, former owner.
Habich, Edward, 1818-1901, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.

Bibliography:

Stampfle, Felice, with the assistance of Ruth S. Kraemer and Jane Shoaf Turner. Netherlandish Drawings of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries and Flemish Drawings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries in the Pierpont Morgan Library. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1991, p. 9, no. 12, repr.
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : drawings by the old masters formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, I, 261, repr. (ascribed to Barthel Beham)

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