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Bust-Length Portrait of a Gentleman before a Landscape

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Attributed to J. Forster
18th century

Bust-Length Portrait of a Gentleman before a Landscape

1701
4 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches (114 x 90 mm), oval
Graphite, point of brush and gray wash, heightened with white gouache, on vellum.
2004.49:47

Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.

Notes
Fol. 29, no. 47 in the Bull Album.
Mounted directly to album leaf; lacks decorative border.
Identified in Fairfax Murray as "J. Forster (eighteenth century)."
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed (signed?) and dated at lower left: J. Forster / Delin / 1701; at center right: AE[ligature]ta Suor[cut off] / 20 / Oct 15[cut off]; on album leaf below drawing in graphite: J Forster del / 1701; at upper left of drawing: x 24; at upper right: 47.
Associated names
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806, former owner.
Thibaudeau, Alphonse Wyatt, 1840-1893, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. P. (John Pierpont), 1867-1943, former owner.
Bibliography
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, III, 16, repr.
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Classification
Century Drawings
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Department