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Italian School

15th century

Standing Youth Holding a Sling

1485-1505

Pen and brown ink and wash, opaque white watercolor, over black chalk, on blue paper altered to green-gray; framing lines in pen and brown ink.

9 1/4 x 4 3/16 inches (235 x 107 mm)

Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan in 1910.

I, 6a

Notes:

Watermark: none visible through lining.

Inscription:

Inscribed on verso of lining, at top, in graphite, "Domenico del Ghirlandajo / at center, in graphite, "Die letzten Nachfolger / Andrea del Sarto's"; at bottom, in graphite, "H.G. Gutekunst Stuttgart / Linz(? or März?) 1887(?) / [...]"; "1634"; in black chalk, "320".

Provenance:

Professor August Grahl (1791-1868), Dresden (Lugt 1199); his sale, London, Sotheby's, 27 April 1885, lot 135 as Domenico Ghirlandaio, "Young Man carrying a sling, study for a David, pen, washed and heightened with white, on greenish paper h. 0,235; w. 0,110"; bought by Joseph Meder (1857-1934), Vienna, for £33.0.0; Freiherr Adelbert von Lanna (1836-1909), Prague (Lugt 2773); his sale, H.G. Gutekunst, Stuttgart, 6-11 May 1910, no. 192 as Ghirlandaio, bought for 10,000 marks by Morgan); J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), New York (no mark; see L. 1509); J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), New York.

Associated names:

Anonymous, Italian School, 16th cent., Alternate attribution.
Ghirlandaio, Davide, 1452-1525, Formerly attributed to.
Ghirlandaio, Domenico, 1449-1494, Formerly attributed to.
Grahl, August, 1791-1868, former owner.
Meder, Joseph, 1857-1934, former owner.
Lanna, Adalbert Franz Josef, Freiherr von, 1836-1909, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Morgan, J. P. (John Pierpont), 1867-1943, former owner.

Bibliography:

Selected references: Gronau 1930, 60; San Francisco 1940a, no. 58 (as Florentine School, fifteenth century); San Francisco 1940b, no. 457 (as Florentine School, fifteenth century); Worcester 1951, no. 42 (as Florentine, fifteenth century); Byam Shaw 1976, 1: 33, under no. 6; Herald 1981, 4, 53 (as Domenico Ghirlandaio).
Drawings from the J. Pierpont Morgan Collection, Lent for Exhibition by Mr. John Pierpont Morgan. New York : New York Public Library, 1919, p.
Italian Exhibition, exh., Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, 1 December 1936 - 31 March 1937.

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