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Pietro Testa
1611-1650
Holy Family
Pen and brown ink and wash, over black chalk, on paper.
13 3/4 x 9 3/4 inches (349 x 248 mm)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
IV, 180d
Notes:
Not in Fairfax Murray catalog.
Inscription:
Inscribed at lower left, in pen and brown ink, boxed, "Pietro Testa"; at lower left in graphite, "199".
Provenance:
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:
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
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