Attributed to Girolamo Genga

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Attributed to Girolamo Genga

1476-1551

Cart Pulled by Four Horses

ca. 1523-1525

Pen and brown ink.

1 1/2 x 3 15/16 inches (38 x 100 mm)

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

I, 43a: no. 130

Notes:

Watermark: none.
One of 11 drawings on one mount, by same hand; some may have been cut from a single sheet.
Acquired as Lombard School.

Inscription:

Inscribed on verso of mount in graphite: "130 / ascribed on old mount to Andrea Schiavone but gr(?) Gregorio Schiavone [i.e., Juraj Ćlinović]?".

Provenance:

Sir John Charles Robinson (1824-1913), Edinburgh and London (Lugt 1433); 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:

Anonymous, Italian School, 16th cent., Formerly attributed to.
Schiavone, Andrea, approximately 1500-1563, Formerly attributed to.
Ćlinović, Juraj, approximately 1433-1504, Formerly attributed to.
Robinson, J. C. (John Charles), Sir, 1824-1913, 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: Rinaldi 2014, 27-28, 48, no. B13-d (as Girolamo Genga).
L'officina della maniera: varietà e fierezza nell'arte fiorentina del Cinquecento fra le due repubbliche 1494-1530 (exhibition catalog) Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, 1996-1997.
Silvani, V. Il pittore Antonio di Donnino del Mazziere. Tesi di laurea, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, 1991-1992.

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