Bernard Picart

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Bernard Picart
1673-1733
Nude Woman Seated, Looking Up
1723
Red chalk, touched with white, on paper; ruled border in red chalk.
11 1/8 x 12 inches (282 x 303 mm)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
III, 85c

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Signed and dated at lower left, above ruled border, "B. Picart f. 1723(?)".

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John MacGowan (Lugt 1496); 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
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MacGowan, John, -1803, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.

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