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Domenico Campagnola
approximately 1500-1564
Flight into Egypt
ca. 1517
Pen and brown ink on paper; with sections of the composition loosely outlined in red chalk; border in gold paint and red chalk.
9 13/16 x 6 7/16 inches (249 x 162 mm)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
IV, 60
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Watermark: none.
Inscription:
Inscribed on verso of lining in lower right corner in graphite, "40".
Provenance:
Sir John Charles Robinson (1824-1913), Edinburgh and London (Lugt 1433); his sale, London, Christie's, 12 May 1902, lot 59;; 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:
Robinson, J. C. (John Charles), Sir, 1824-1913, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Bibliography:
Tietze and Tietze-Conrat 1944, 129, no. 515; Saccomani 1978, 110, n. 9; Saccomani 1982, 88, 97 n. 58, no. 16; Washington 1995-96, 188, 191 no. 2.
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, IV, 60, repr.
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