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François Lemoyne
1688-1737
Landscape with Building
Red chalk on paper.
8 3/8 x 12 15/16 inches (213 x 329 mm)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
I, 281
Notes:
Formerly attributed to Antoine Watteau.
Provenance:
Jean-Denis Lempereur, Paris (1701-1779; Lugt 1740); 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:
Pater, Jean-Baptiste Joseph, 1695-1736, Formerly attributed to.
Watteau, Antoine, 1684-1721, Formerly attributed to.
Lempereur, Jean-Denis, 1701-1779, former owner.
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, I, 281, repr. (as Pater).
Pierre Rosenberg and Louis-Antoine Prat, "Antoine Watteau 1684-1721, Catalogue raisonné des dessins", 3 vols., Milan, 1996, III, no. R 393, p. 1252, repr.
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