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Timoteo Viti
1469-1523
Head of a Woman in Profile to the Right
ca. 1515
Black and white chalk, on two pieces of paper of joined vertically; incised with stylus.
image: 8 3/16 x 9 1/2 inches (207 x 242 mm; maximum dimensions); support: 9 7/16 x 9 9/16 (239 x 243 mm)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
IV, 186
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Watermark: none.
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, John Pierpont, 1837-1913, former owner.
Morgan, J. P. (John Pierpont), 1867-1943, former owner.
Bibliography:
Rhoda Eitel-Porter and and John Marciari, Italian Renaissance Drawings at the Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 2019, no. 33.
Selected references: Fairfax Murray 1905-12, 4:186; Rinaldi 2013, 152-54.
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, IV, 186 (repr.)
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