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Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione
1609-1664
Old Woman Telling a Story to a Young Woman, in a cave surrounded by animals and birds
Brown wash, watercolor and opaque watercolors, with red and brown oil, on cream laid paper; framing line in black ink.
11 1/8 x 16 1/4 inches (283 x 413 mm)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
IV, 193
Provenance:
Thomas Dimsdale, London (Lugt 2426); 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:
Dimsdale, Thomas, 1712-1800, 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, IV, 193, repr.
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