The present drawing is placed on the same mount as another study by the same hand, both of which were cataloged as by Jacopo Pontormo while in the Fairfax Murray collection, and later published as Rosso Fiorentino by Bernard Berenson. It is more likely by a seventeenth-century hand.1
Footnotes:
- Morgan Library & Museum, New York, inv. IV, 21b.
Watermark: none visible through lining.
The drawing, which is placed on the same mount as Morgan IV, 21a (apparently by the same hand), was catalogued as by Jacopo Pontormo while in the Fairfax Murray collection, and later published as Rosso Fiorentino by Bernard Berenson. It is more likely by a seventeenth-century hand.
Inscription on verso of lining, at lower center, in graphite, "g".
Pontormo, Jacopo da, 1494-1556, Formerly attributed to the Circle of.
Rosso Fiorentino, 1494-1540, Formerly attributed to.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Morgan, J. P. (John Pierpont), 1867-1943, former owner.
Selected references: Fairfax Murray 1905-12, 4: no. 21 (as Jacopo Pontormo); Berenson 1938, 2: 315, no. 2448E (as Rosso Fiorentino); Ames 1964, no. 28 (as Pontormo).
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : drawings by the old masters formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, IV, 21b, repr.
Dervaux, Isabelle. Drawing connections: Baselitz, Kelly, Penone, Rockburne, and the old masters. New York: Morgan Library & Museum, 2007, p. 39, 42 (repr.)