Maso Finiguerra

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Maso Finiguerra

1426-1464

Standing Man in Profile to the Right, Wearing a Cloak and Hat

ca. 1450-1460

Pen and brown ink and wash, inscribed with stylus, on laid paper.

7 3/8 x 2 5/8 inches (186 x 60 mm)

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

I, 4:2

Notes:

Watermark: none.

Provenance:

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:

Pollaiolo, Antonio, 1426?-1498, Formerly attributed to the school of.
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:

Selected references: Fairfax Murray 1905-12, 1: 4 (as school of Pollaiuolo); Cleveland 1927, no. 51; Hind 1938, 1: 316; Berenson 1938, 2: 271, no. 1947D (as school of Antonio Pollajuolo); Ortolani 1948, 172, no. 21 (as copy after Pollaiuolo); Staten Island 1958-59, no. 1a (as Florentine school, 15th century); Berenson 1961, 2: no. 1947D (as school of Antonio Pollajuola); Fenyö 1963, 92; Degenhart and Schmidt 1968-2010, 1: under no. 620 (as Finiguerra); Kubiak 1974, 184 (as Finiguera); Melli 1995, 99, no. 148; Angelucci and Cordellier 2016, 24, note 43; Marciari, in New York 2019, 117-18, under no. 18.
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, I, 4, repr.

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