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Pietro Testa
1611-1650
Amorini
Pen and brown ink, over black chalk, on paper; made up at bottom left corner with strip of contrasting tan paper.
6 1/4 x 7 11/16 inches (159 x 196 mm)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
IV, 180b
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Not in Fairfax Murray catalog.
Provenance:
Sir Thomas Lawrence (blind stamp, Lugt 2445); Pierre Crozat (Lugt 2951); 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:
Lawrence, Thomas, Sir, 1769-1830, former owner.
Crozat, M. (Pierre), 1661-1740, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
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