Pirro Ligorio

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Pirro Ligorio
approximately 1513-1583
A Sacrifice, after the Antique
Pen and brown ink, on parchment; fragments of a framing line in pen and black ink.
6 3/16 x 4 5/8 inches (157 x 111 mm)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
IV, 50b
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Watermark: none on parchment.
Formerly attributed to Enea Vico, Parma 1523-1567 Ferrara.

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Charles Fairfax Murray, London; from whom purchased in London in 1910 by J. Pierpont Morgan (no mark; see Lugt 1509).
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Vico, Enea, 1523-1567
Anonymous, Italian School, 16th cent., Formerly attributed to.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.

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