Vittore Carpaccio

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Vittore Carpaccio

1455?-1525?

Head of Bearded Man Wearing a Cap, in Profile to the Left. Verso: Head of a Young Man, in Profile to the Right

1490-1500

Black chalk, brown wash, with lead white opaque watercolor, on blue paper; verso: black chalk, brown wash, lead white opaque watercolor.

10 3/8 x 7 1/4 inches (265 x 185 mm)

Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan.

I, 54 (recto)

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Watermark: none.

Provenance:

Silvestro Bonfiglioli (1637-1696), Bologna; Bartolomeo Bonfiglioli, Bologna and Venice; Zaccaria Sagredo (1653-1729), Venice; John Udny (1727-1800), London, 1763; the Earls of Sunderland, Blenheim Palace, Woodstock near Oxford; by descent to 7th Duke of Marlborough, Blenheim Palace; Sunderland sale, Christie's, London, 15 June 1883, possibly part of lot 114, "various drawings, especially of heads after Carpaccio"; Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), London and Florence; from whom purchased in 1910 by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913; no mark; see Lugt 1509), New York; J. P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), New York.

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Bonfiglioli, Silvestro, 1637-1696, former owner.
Bonfiglioli, Bartolomeo, former owner.
Sagredo, Zaccaria, 1653-1729, former owner.
Udny, John, 1727-1800, 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. 56.
Selected references: Fairfax Murray 1905-12, 1: nos. 54-55; van Marle 1923-38, 18:350n1; Hadeln 1925, 40; Fiocco 1930, 68; New London 1936, no. 15; Toledo 1940, no. 77; Northampton 1941, no. 3; Mongan 1942, 94; Tietze and Tietze-Conrat 1944, under A600, and no. 627; Lauts 1962, no. 38; Muraro 1966, 110; Stockholm 1970, no. 30; Muraro 1977, no. 555; Sgarbi 1994, 232; White 1994, 1:100, 102-3; Rearick 2002, 46; Munich 2008-9, no. 6.
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, I, 54 and 55, repr.
100 Master drawings from the Morgan Library & Museum. München : Hirmer, 2008, no. 6, repr. [Rhode Eitel-Porter]

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