Domenico Beccafumi

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Domenico Beccafumi

1486-1551

Head of a Bearded Man in Profile to the Right

ca. 1530-1535

Oil on paper, over black chalk or charcoal; incised with stylus varnished.

10 x 8 1/8 inches (254 x 206 mm)

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

I, 19a

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Watermark: none visible through lining.

Provenance:

Sir Joseph Hawley (1814-1875), London; Sir Henry Hawley; sale, London, Christie's, 16 July 1891, lot 194, one of ten "A series of Studies - in oil, by an unknown Artist"; bought by 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:

Hawley, Joseph Henry, Sir, 1813-1875, former owner.
Hawley, Henry, Sir, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Morgan, J. P. (John Pierpont), 1867-1943, former owner.

Bibliography:

Rhoda Eitel-Porter and and John Marciari, Italian Renaissance Drawings at the Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 2019, no. 91.
Selected references: Judey 1932, no. 226; Sanminiatelli 1955, 39; Hartford 1960, no. 67; New York 1965-66, no. 62; Sanminiatelli 1967, no. 23; Baccheschi 1977, no. 116; MacAndrew 1980, no. 114-1; Gordley 1988, no. 82, under no. 87, and under no. 107; Siena 1990, no. 127; Torriti 1998, no. D111, and under no. P66; Lincoln 2000, no. 83; London 2007-8, under 110 and 111; New York 2007, 38-39.
Stampfle, Felice, and Jacob Bean. Drawings from New York collections. I: The Italian Renaissance. New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1965, p. 47, no. 62.
Dervaux, Isabelle. Drawing connections: Baselitz, Kelly, Penone, Rockburne, and the old masters. New York: Morgan Library & Museum, 2007, p. 38-39 (repr.)

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