Filippino Lippi

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Filippino Lippi

-1504

Seated Man with Clasped Hands. Verso: Seated Man, Holding a Staff, Looking to the Left

ca. 1475-1480

Metalpoint, with white opaque watercolor, on gray prepared paper; verso: metalpoint, with white opaque watercolor, retouched with pen and brown ink on gray prepared paper.

7 1/4 x 5 inches (184 x 127 mm)

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

II, 72 - II, 73

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Watermark: none.

Inscription:

Inscribed on the verso, at lower right corner, in black chalk, "19".

Provenance:

Adolphus Frederick, Duke of Cambridge, London (1774-1850; no mark; see Lugt 118); 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:

Adolphus Frederick, Prince, Duke of Cambridge, 1774-1850, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.

Bibliography:

Rhoda Eitel-Porter and and John Marciari, Italian Renaissance Drawings at the Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 2019, no. 19.
Selected references: Fairfax Murray 1905-12, 2:72, 73; Toronto 1926, no. 33; Buffalo 1935, no. 17; Scharf 1935, nos. 270 and 271; New London 1936, no. 6; Berenson 1938, 2: no. 1353D; New York 1939, no. 66; Northampton 1941, no. 21; D'Otrange-Mastai 1955, 140; Hartford 1960, no. 64; Berenson 1961, 2: no. 1353D; Ames 1962, 1: no. 121; Shoemaker 1975, no. 12; Los Angeles 1976, no. 14; New York 1997-98, no. 13, and under no. 22; Nelson 2011, 214.
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, II, 72 (recto) and 73 (verso)

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