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Italian School
16th century
Virgin and Child with Infant Baptist
1530s-1540s
Pen and brown ink and wash, with opaque lead white (partially oxidized), over black chalk, on laid paper.
6 1/2 x 5 inches (163 x 128 mm)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
IV, 29

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Watermark: none.
Has been attributed to Biagio Pupini dalle Lame, fl. 1511-1551 Bologna.

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Inscribed on verso, "$-45, wyo [wy ligated]"

Provenance: 
William Young Ottley (1771-1836), London (Lugt 2662); Charles Gasc, ca. 1850, Paris (Lugt 543); 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: 

Raphael, 1483-1520, School of, Formerly attributed to.
Gasc, Charles, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.

Bibliography: 

Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, IV, 29.

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