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Alessio Gimignani
Sketch for Decorative Lunette
Pen and brown ink and wash, on paper; image in lunette shape with framing line in brown ink; traces of ruling along outside bottom edge, in black chalk.
5 1/16 x 7 1/4 inches (128 x 184 mm); maximum dimensions of image area: 3 9/16 x 6 3/8 inches (89 x 184 mm)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
IV, 27d
Inscription:
Inscribed at lower center, in pen and brown ink, "Matteo Rosseli [?]21".
Provenance:
Nathaniel Hone, London (Lugt 2793); 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:
Rosselli, Matteo, 1578-1650, formerly attributed to.
Hone, Nathaniel, 1718-1784, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
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