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Italian School

active 15th century

Standing Goat and Recumbent Sheep. Verso: Two Birds

ca. 1400-1410

Brush and brown, white, and black opaque watercolor, and pen and brown ink for the Goldfinches, on parchment. Verso: Offset pattern of a brown ink drawing.

6 3/8 x 4 3/4 inches (161 x 120 mm)

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

I, 84 (recto), I, 85 (verso)

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Inscribed at upper right, in pen and brown ink, "8"; on verso, in lower right corner, in graphite, "88".

Provenance:

William Mitchell (d. 1908; no mark; see Lugt 2638), London (according to Fairfax Murray); Frederick, Lord Leighton (1830-1896), London; his sale, Christie's, London, 16 July 1896, lot 439; 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:

Mitchell, William, -1908, former owner.
Leighton of Stretton, Frederic Leighton, Baron, 1830-1896, 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:

Rhoda Eitel-Porter and and John Marciari, Italian Renaissance Drawings at the Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 2019, no. 6.
Selected references: Fairfax Murray 1905-12, 1:82, 83 (as Pisanello); van Schendel 1938, 65-66 (as studio of Giovannino de' Grassi or his follower); Schmitt 1997, 20-21; Weimar and elsewhere 1999-2000, under nos. 1-4 (as Lombard, ca. 1400); Fischer Pace 2008, under no. 403; Munich 2008-9, nos. 2-3; London and Florence 2010-11, 91.
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, I, 84 and 85.
100 Master drawings from the Morgan Library & Museum. München : Hirmer, 2008, no. 3, repr. [Rhoda Eitel-Porter]

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