Attributed to Jan Andrea Lievens

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Attributed to Jan Andrea Lievens

1644-1680

Copy after Titian's "St. Peter Martyr" Altarpiece in the Church of SS. Giovanni e Paolo, Venice

Pen and brown ink and wash, on paper.

12 1/2 x 17 7/8 inches (316 x 456 mm)

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

I, 61

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Watermark: none visible through lining.
Formerly attributed to Titian, ca. 1488-1576.

Inscription:

Inscribed at lower center edge, in graphite, "Titien"; at lower right, collector's stamp of "W" surmounted by a crown and inscribed in a circle; on verso of old mount, at lower center, in graphite No ["o" in superscript] 14 L Titian" (all underlined).

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.

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Titian, approximately 1488-1576, Formerly attributed to.
Titian, approximately 1488-1576, Copy after.
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, I, 61, repr. (as Titian).
Jane Shoaf Turner, with contributions by Felice Stampfle, Dutch Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library: Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries, New York, 2006, cat. no. 135.

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