Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Male Torso

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).
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.
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.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department