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Federigo Barocci
1528-1612
Two Studies of the Head of an Infant in Profile to the Right and one of the Head of a Child Looking Down to the Left
1592-1603
Black and white chalks, colored chalks, on blue laid paper.
9 1/2 x 10 3/4 inches (241 x 272 mm)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
IV, 155
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Probable watermark on lining.
Inscription:
Inscribed on verso of lining, at center, in graphite, probably by J. Bailey, "JB / Vol.II no.16".
Provenance:
Unidentified collector (partially effaced mark, double circle in black ink, at lower right); J. Bailey (Lugt 1412); Whitehead sale, London, Parsons Peter and Colnaghi, 13 May 1903, lot 27, as "Federico Baroccio. Heads of Angels in coloured chalks (2); unsold, £1.5.0"; 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:
Bayley, John, -1869, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Bibliography:
Olsen 1962, 192, no. 46; Cleveland and New Haven 1978, 89, no. 68; Emiliani 2008, 2:265, no. 72:56.
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, IV, 155.
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