Fra Bartolommeo

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Fra Bartolommeo

1472-1517

Female Figure Appearing to a Monk (Temptation of St. Anthony). Verso: Kneeling Youth, Turning to Look Back over His Shoulder, with a Child Peering over a Barricade

ca. 1495

Pen and brown ink and wash, with lead white opaque watercolor on laid paper; verso: red chalk.

4 1/8 x 6 5/8 inches (105 x 169 mm)

Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.

I, 28

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Drawing on verso (actually a backing sheet) by a later hand depicting a Kneeling Youth, Turning to Look Back over His Shoulder, with a Child Peering over a Barricade.

Inscription:

Inscribed by Gabburri on verso of original sheet in pen and brown ink, at top, "Originale da Suor Plautilla scolara di Fra Bartolomeo / che fu erede [...] disegni". (The inscription is on the back of the original sheet and hidden by the laid-down backing sheet but it visible in transmitted light.)

Provenance:

Suor Plautilla Nelli (1523-1588); Convent of Santa Caterine da Siena, Florence, by 1568; Francesco Maria Niccolò Gaburri (1675-1742), Florence; his heirs; purchased from them in Florence between 29 September 1758 and January 1759 by William Kent (active 1742-62); his sale, London, 1760; 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:

Nelli, Plautilla, suor, 1523-1588, former owner.
Gabburri, Francesco Maria Niccolò, 1676-1742, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.

Bibliography:

Rhoda Eitel-Porter and and John Marciari, Italian Renaissance Drawings at the Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 2019, no. 21.
Selected references: Fairfax Murray 1905-12, 1:28; Berenson 1938, no. 459D; Berenson 1961, no. 459D; Stockholm 1970, no. 32; Beltrame Quattrocchi 1979, under no. 36; Florence 1986a, under no. 5; Fischer 1990, 326, 328; Rotterdam and elsewhere 1990-92, under no. 19.
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, I, 28.

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