Netherlandish School
16th century
Half-Length Portrait of a Woman of the Sassetta Family, Wife of Agnolo Marucelli
7 3/16 x 5 1/8 inches (182 x 130 mm)
Metalpoint on laid paper prepared with white-gray ground.
I, 262
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Notes
Watermark: none visible through lining.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed at lower edge, in an early hand (16th century?), in brown ink, "trad ... Sassetti Dona ... [Ag]nolo Marucelli".
Associated names
Beham, Barthel, 1502-1540, School of, Formerly attributed to.
Anonymous, French School, 16th cent., Formerly attributed to.
Skene, George, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Anonymous, French School, 16th cent., Formerly attributed to.
Skene, George, 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. 10, no. 13, repr.
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : drawings by the old masters formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, I, 262, repr. (ascribed to Barthel Beham)
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : drawings by the old masters formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, I, 262, repr. (ascribed to Barthel Beham)
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