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Attributed to Giulio Romano
1499-1546
Proserpina and Envy
Pen and brown ink and wash, on parchment.
6 5/16 x 6 1/4 inches (160 x 155 mm)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
IV, 16d
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.
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Watermark: none.
Possibly attributed to Studio of Giulio Romano.
The personification of Envy corresponds with that in Cesare Ripa's "Iconologia."
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