Alessio Gimignani

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Alessio Gimignani
Sketch for Decorative Lunette
Pen and brown ink and wash, over black chalk, on paper; image in lunette shape with framing line in brown ink; ruled in black chalk, and partially marked along outside of bottom edge in pen and black ink.
6 1/16 x 7 9/16 inches (153 x 192 mm); maximum dimensions of image area: 4 1/2 x 7 inches (114 x 178 mm)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
IV, 27e
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Inscribed at lower center, in pen and brown ink, "Matt-Rosseli [?]29".

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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.
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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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