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Italian School
Male Saint Conversing with a Group of Ecclesiastics
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Pen and brown ink and wash, over black chalk, on paper; remnant of framing lines at upper edge; perimeter mounted into Destailleur album.
1 1/8 x 1 7/8 inches (30 x 48 mm)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
2006.27:1-96, fol. 31(a)
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Watermark: none.
Recueil de Dessins folio 31(a).
One of ninety-six drawings that the French architect and collector Hippolyte Destailleur apparently pasted into an empty quarto album. See also Recueil de Dessins (2006.27:1-96).
Provenance:
Madame Sophie, daughter of Louis XV; Hippolyte-Alexandre-Gabriel-Walter Destailleur (1822-1893), Paris, (no mark; see Lugt 740); his sale, Paris, 26 May 1893, lot 98, entire album; 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:
Sophie, of France, Madame, daughter of Louis XV, 1734-1782, former owner.
Destailleur, Hippolyte Alexandre Gabriel Walter, 1822-1893, former owner.
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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