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Copy after Christoph Amberger

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Copy after Christoph Amberger
-1561 or 1562
Portrait of Charles V
Pen and black ink, brown and red oil wash, with opaque white, on paper prepared with brown wash; framing lines in brown ink.
12 x 7 7/16 inches (305 x 190 mm)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
III, 134b
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Watermark: illegible fragment along lower edge.

Provenance: 
Eugene Glaenzer and Co. (as Lucas Cranach); from whom purchased in 1911 by J. Pierpont Morgan (no mark; see Lugt 1509).
Associated names: 

Anonymous, German 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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Amberger, Christoph
School: 
German
Century: 
16th century
Classification: 
Drawing
Department: 
Drawings and Prints