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Italian School

15th century

Martyrdom of St. Sebastian. Verso: Two Standing Female Figures, a Seated Woman, and a Faint Study for Her Drapery

Pen and brown and brown-black inks and wash, over lead point, with correction in white opaque watercolor, on laid paper; verso: pen and brown ink over lead point.

10 7/8 x 7 9/16 inches (275 x 192 mm)

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

I, 40 (recto)

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Notes:

Watermark: none.
At least the recto of this drawing was long formerly attributed to Vincenzo Foppa, Bagnolo near Brescia 1427/30-1515/16 Brescia.

Inscription:

Inscribed in lower right corner in pen and brown ink, "72"; in upper right corner, in red chalk, "A 48"; on verso, at lower center, in pen and brown ink, "25", in upper right corner, in red chalk, "A 47"; in graphite, "No[o superscript] 54 / Mantegna / f. 200".

Provenance:

Giuseppe Vallardi (1784-1863), Milan (Lugt 1223); Charles Philippe, Marquis de Chennevières (1820-1899), Paris and Bellesme (Orne, Normandie) (his collection, according to 1889 Thibaudeau sale catalogue); Alphonse Wyatt Thibaudeau (ca. 1840-ca. 1892), London and Paris (Lugt 2473); his sale, London, Sotheby's, 13 December 1889, lot 1098 as Andrea Mantegna, "Study for a St. Sebastian, with many figures, pen and bistre; from the Vallardi and Chennevières Collections"; bought for £0.111.0, 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:

Foppa, Vincenzo, active 1459-1490, Formerly attributed to.
Vallardi, Giuseppe, 1784-1861, 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:

Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, I, 40, repr. (as Vincenzo Foppa); IV, 31 (as Lombard School)

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