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Battista Franco
1510?-1561
Prophet with Banderole, Looking up to the Right, and Striding to Left
ca. 1540-1550
Pen and brown ink on paper.
9 1/8 x 6 inches (232 x 152 mm)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
IV, 73a
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Watermark: none visible through lining.
Inscription:
Inscribed at lower left, in pen and brown ink, largely effaced, "o[...]"; inscribed on verso, at upper center, cropped by upper edge of sheet, in pen and brown ink, with Richardson's pressmark, "[...] Zn 37 / K".
Provenance:
Jonathan Richardson Sr. (1665-1745), London (Lugt 2183); 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:
Richardson, Jonathan, 1665-1745, 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:
Selected references: Fairfax Murray 1905-12, 4: no. 73a.
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