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Italian School
16th century
Design for a Wall with Roundel with Virgin and Child and Infant Saint John the Baptist, Flanked by Putti Standing on Pedestals. Verso: Fragment of Four Concentric Rectangles
ca. 1520-1535
Pen and brown ink, over black chalk and stylus indentations, on paper; roundel at center and putti sounding trumpets in spandrels drawn on separate pieces of paper and pasted on to design; verso: four parallel, ruled U-shaped lines in pen and brown ink, over stylus indentations.
5 3/4 x 5 1/4 inches (147 x 135 mm)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
II, 25a
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Watermark: none.
One of 34 sixteenth-century Italian drawings formerly mounted in a nineteenth-century album, the Cesare da Sesto Album.
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Inscribed at upper right, in black chalk, "10".
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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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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