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16th century

Kneeling Cleric in a Cope (St. Ildefonso?), Virgin Seated on Clouds, and a Secondary Study for Kneeling Cleric. Verso: Section of Base of a Column, Nude Male Figure Seen from the Back, and Architectural Study

ca. 1540

Red chalk, over stylus indentations (Virgin), and pen and brown ink (secondary study of kneeling cleric), on paper; verso: pen and brown ink, and red chalk (architectural study), over stylus indentations indentations (base of a column and architectural study).

14 5/8 x 8 13/16 inches (371 x 223 mm)

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

IV, 187a, b

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Notes:

Watermark: none.
The drawing was in the Fairfax Murray collection as by Baldassare Peruzzi and the attribution has since then wavered between Polidoro and Perino del Vaga.

Inscription:

Inscribed at upper center, in pen and brown ink, "A DEI GENITRIX" (this changed to "GENITALE") "VESTEM SACRAM / ACCIPIT D ALFONVS" (this changed to "ALFONSVS"); on verso, presumably by the artist, at center, left, just beneath base of a column, "Basa corytia" [i.e. Corinthian, or "conytia"?] "e stanza / in palazo magiore / una logia verso lago"; at lower center, in red chalk, turning sheet through 90° to left, labelling the architectural study, "stucco" (?); "bronza"; at upper right, upside down, and cut by edge of sheet, in red chalk, "[...]nza"; in lower right corner, upside down, in graphite, "1594".

Provenance:

Sir Charles Greville (1763-1832), English officer (Lugt 549); by descent to his nephew, George Guy Greville, fourth Earl of Warwick (1818-1893), Warwick Castle (Lugt 2600); 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:

Polidoro, da Caravaggio, approximately 1495-approximately 1543, Circle of.
Perino, del Vaga, 1500 or 1501-1547, Possible attribution.
Peruzzi, Baldassarre, 1481-1536, Formerly attributed to.
Warwick, George Guy Greville, Earl of, 1818-1893, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.

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