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Attributed to Paolo Farinati
1524-1606
Seated Male Figure Holding a Book
Black chalk, with white chalk, on blue paper.
10 1/2 x 9 inches (268 x 229 mm)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
IV, 79
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Inscribed at top, right of center, in pen and brown ink, "Tre(?) 3"; on verso of lining, "12 / 5 / 27 Pu(?) 1823; 44".
Provenance:
Unidentified collector; 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:
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Bibliography:
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, IV, 79, repr.
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