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Federigo Barocci
1528-1612
Study for the Figure of Saint John Bearing the Feet of the Dead Christ
1579-1582
Pen and brown ink and wash with opaque lead white watercolor (partially oxidized), on light brown toned paper; squared in red and black chalk and with stylus indentations.
11 5/8 x 7 11/16 inches (294 x 195 mm)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
IV, 155a
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Study for the figure of Saint John in Barocci's Entombment in the Church of Santa Croce, Senigallia, 1579-82.
Provenance:
Sir Charles Greville (1763-1836), English army officer (Lugt 549); by descent to his nephew, George Guy Greville, fourth Earl of Warwick, (1818-1893 Lugt 2600), Warwick Castle; 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:
Greville, Charles, 1762-1832, former owner.
Warwick, George Guy Greville, Earl of, 1818-1893, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Bibliography:
Olsen 1955, 134; Olsen 1962, 172; Bertela 1975, 52; Cleveland and New Haven 1978, 62-63, no. 39; Boston and elsewhere 1989, 90, no. 40; Marciari & Verstegen 2008, 312.
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