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J. Forster
18th century
Portrait of a Young Girl
Graphite, some stumping, on vellum.
4 7/16 x 3 7/16 inches (112 x 88 mm), oval
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
2004.49:51
Notes:
Fol. 32, no. 51 in the Bull Album.
Mounted directly to album leaf; lacks decorative border.
Identified in Fairfax Murray as by "J. Forster (eighteenth century)".
Inscription:
Inscribed (signed?) at lower right: J. Forster / Delin; on album leaf at right of drawing: By J. Forster; beneath this in another hand: signed; to the right of this in a further hand: Murray III - 16; at upper left of drawing: x 27; at upper right: 51.
Provenance:
Richard Bull, Ongar, Essex (Lugt 314 and Lugt S. 314); Alphonse Wyatt Thibaudeau (ca. 1840-ca. 1892), London and Paris; his sale, London, Sotheby's, 9-13 December 1889, lot 1146; 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:
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, 17, repr.
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