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Attributed to Lorenzo Costa
1460-1535
Figure Being Carried in Triumph
ca. 1500-1530
Pen and brown ink, over black chalk, on paper; verso: pen trials in pen and brown ink.
7 7/8 x 6 1/4 inches (199 x 160 mm)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
I, 12a
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Watermark: none.
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Inscribed at lower right, in pen and brown ink, "Lorenzo Costa il Vecchio".
Provenance:
Jonathan Richardson, Sr. (1667-1745), London (Lugt 2184); Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), London and Florence, London; 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:
Richardson, Jonathan, 1665-1745, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Bibliography:
Brown 1966 (1979), 265-266, 269, 367, no. 55c; Brown 1997, 148-149, no. 27; Negro and Roio 2001, 153, no. 193P; Florence 2001, 298.
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