Giovanni Antonio Pordenone

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Giovanni Antonio Pordenone

1484?-1539

Crucifixion

1520-1521

Red chalk on paper.

7 1/8 x 8 inches (180 x 204 mm)

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

IV, 69

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Watermark: Coat of arms, possibly arms of Amsterdam, lined drawing.

Provenance:

Nicholas Lanier, London (1581-1666; Lugt 2885), London; Jonathan Richardson, Sr. (1665-1745; Lugt 2183, twice), London; Sir John Charles Robinson, Edinburgh and London (1824-1913; Lugt 1433); his sale, London, Christie's, 12 May 1902, lot 264 (as Sebastiano del Piombo); 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.

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Associated names:

Campi, Bernardino, 1521-1591, Formerly attributed to.
Lanier, Nicholas, 1588-1666, former owner.
Richardson, Jonathan, 1665-1745, former owner.
Robinson, J. C. (John Charles), Sir, 1824-1913
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913
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. 76.
Selected references: Berenson 1903, no. 2490; Fairfax Murray 1905-12, 4: no. 69; Fiocco 1943, 84, 88, 111, 126; Tietze and Tietze-Conrat 1944, 233, 239; New York 1965-66, no. 52; Cohen 1972, 128; Cohen 1975a, 31; Rearick 1976, 44-45; Cohen 1980, 104; Furlan 1988, no. D5; Rearick 2001, 76-77, 79; Tomei 2001, 170-73; Villata 2016, 72-73.
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, IV, 69 repr.

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