Attributed to Baccio Bandinelli
1493-1560
Male Torso
5 3/16 x 6 1/16 inches (131 x 153 mm)
Red chalk on paper; verso: three perpendicular lines in pen and brown ink, set one inside the other, and ruled lines drawn with the stylus.
IV, 22:2
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Notes
Formerly attributed to Rosso Fiorentino, 1494-1540; Francesco Salviati (1510-1563).
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed on verso, at upper center, in graphite, "Rosso"; at lower center, in graphite, "J / 2".
Watermark: Ladder in an escutcheon (Briquet 5929: Lucca, 1547-50).
Watermark: Ladder in an escutcheon (Briquet 5929: Lucca, 1547-50).
Associated names
Rosso Fiorentino, 1494-1540, Formerly attributed to.
Salviati, Francesco, 1510-1563, Formerly attributed to.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Salviati, Francesco, 1510-1563, Formerly attributed to.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Bibliography
Selected references: Fairfax Murray 1905-12, 4: no. 22 (as Rosso); Carroll 1971, 30 (as Salviati); Carroll 1976, 2: 498-99, no. F42 (as Salviati); Cheney 1982, 793-94, no. 3; Ward 1982, 327-28, no. 260 (as Bandinelli); Mortari, 1992, 241-42, no. 407.
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, IV, 22, repr.
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, IV, 22, repr.
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Century Drawings
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