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Isaac Oliver
1556?-1617
Two Classical Figures
Brush and gray wash on paper.
8 1/2 x 8 11/16 inches (217 x 223 mm)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
III, 3b
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Watermark: shield with letter "B" surmounted by a crown (cf. Churchill 574).
Inscription:
Inscribed at lower left in gray wash, "PO"; numbered on verso in pencil, "22".
Provenance:
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, III, 3b.
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