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Italian School
16th century
Design for a Ceiling with Musicians in the Lunettes and a Central Oblong Panel with an Escutcheon; Alternate Study for Central Oblong Panel
ca. 1538-1547
Pen and dark brown ink on paper; with red chalk smudges.
4 1/8 x 4 7/8 inches (105 x 125 mm)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
II, 29a
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Watermark: none.
One of thirty four 16th century Italian drawings formerly mounted in a nineteenth-century album, the Cesare da Sesto Album.This drawing was folio 29.
Inscription:
Inscribed near left edge, when turned through 90 degrees to the right, in pen and brown ink, "Tridenti".
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.
Associated names:
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Morgan, J. P. (John Pierpont), 1867-1943, former owner.
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