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Workshop of Filippino Lippi
-1504
Two Male Nudes, One Playing a Viola, the Other Singing
ca. 1480-1490
Metalpoint, with white opaque watercolor, on brown prepared laid paper.
7 7/8 x 8 7/8 inches (200 x 225 mm; maximum dimensions)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
IV, 2
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Watermark: none visible through lining.
Formerly attributed to Andrea del Castagno, David Ghirlandaio, and Anonymous, Italian School, Florence, ca. 1490.
Inscription:
Inscribed on verso of mount, in red ink, "b"; in pen and brown ink, "[...effaced] 54"; in graphite, "Lorenzo Cossa; 32/20[a fraction] 12; 23".
Provenance:
Unidentified collector (mark: 8-pointed star in black); Earl of Arundel? (see Lugt 508); Tighe; 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:
Castagno, Andrea del, 1423-1457, Formerly attributed to.
Ghirlandaio, Davide, 1452-1525, Formerly attributed to.
Anonymous, Italian School, 15th cent., Formerly attributed to.
Arundel, Earl of, former owner.
Tighe, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
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