Baldassarre Peruzzi

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Baldassarre Peruzzi

1481-1536

Holy Family with Saints

ca. 1515-1520

Pen and brown ink and wash, incised with stylus.

7 3/8 x 5 5/8 inches (189 x 142 mm)

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

I, 44

Notes:

Watermark: none visible through lining.
Formerly attributed to Sodoma, 1477?-1549.

Inscription:

Inscribed in lower left corner, in pen and brown ink, "titiano (partially effaced)"; on verso of mount, at upper center, in pen and brown ink, "no9".

Provenance:

The Earls Spencer, Althorp House, Northamptonshire (Lugt 1532); 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:

Sodoma, 1477?-1549, Formerly attributed to.
Spencer, Earls of, 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. 38.
Selected references: Fairfax Murray 1905-12, 1: no. 44; New York 1965-66, no. 47; Vitzthum 1966, 110; Frommel 1967-68, 160, no. 129; Saarbrücken 1997, no. 63.
Stampfle, Felice, and Jacob Bean. Drawings from New York collections. I: The Italian Renaissance. New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1965, no. 47.

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