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Italian School

15th century

Standing Youth, Holding a Spear

Pen and black ink and wash, with lead white opaque watercolor, on red prepared paper.

7 3/4 x 4 3/8 inches (196 x 110 mm)

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

I, 92

Inscription:

Inscribed on mount, in pen and red ink, "Rymsdyk's Museum"; in pen and dark brown ink, "Bramante d'Urbino (cancelled)"; "Born at Castel Durante / in 1444 (cancelled); died at Rome in / 1514 (cancelled)"; in graphite, "Cossa", on verso of mount, in pen and dark brown ink, "B'"; "AIVA"; "Bramante ---. / Out of one of ye litle books / of y[e] Old Earle of Arundelle".

Provenance:

Thomas Howard, 14th Earl of Arundel (1585- 1646), London, Antwerp, and Padua; presumably by descent to his grandson, Henry Howard, 6th Duke of Norfolk (1628-1684); Jan van Rymsdyk (c. 1720-1790), London (L. 2167); presumably his sale, London, Greenwood's, 29 March 1790; probably William Tighe (1766-1816), Woodstock House, Inistioge, Co. Kilkenny (acc. to Fairfax Murray); possibly by descent; Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), London and Florence; from whom purchased, through Galerie Alexandre Imbert, Rome, by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), New York, 1909; his son, J. P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), New York; by whom given to the library, 1924

Associated names:

Cossa, Francesco del, ca. 1435-ca. 1477, Formerly attributed to.
Arundel, Earl of, former owner.
Rymsdyk, Jan van, fl. ca. 1770, former owner.
Tighe, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.

Bibliography:

Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : drawings by the old masters formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, I, no. 92. (as Cossa)

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