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Attributed to J. Forster
18th century
Bust-Length Portrait of a Gentleman before a Landscape
1701
Graphite, point of brush and gray wash, heightened with white gouache, on vellum.
4 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches (114 x 90 mm), oval
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
2004.49:47
Notes:
Fol. 29, no. 47 in the Bull Album.
Mounted directly to album leaf; lacks decorative border.
Identified in Fairfax Murray as "J. Forster (eighteenth century)."
Inscription:
Inscribed (signed?) and dated at lower left: J. Forster / Delin / 1701; at center right: AE[ligature]ta Suor[cut off] / 20 / Oct 15[cut off]; on album leaf below drawing in graphite: J Forster del / 1701; at upper left of drawing: x 24; at upper right: 47.
Provenance:
Richard Bull, Ongar, Essex (Lugt 314 and Lugt S. 314); Alphonse Wyatt Thibaudeau (ca. 1840-ca. 1892), London and Paris; his sale, London, Sotheby's, 9-13 December 1889, lot 1146; 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:
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806, former owner.
Thibaudeau, Alphonse Wyatt, 1840-1893, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. P. (John Pierpont), 1867-1943, former owner.
Bibliography:
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, III, 16, repr.
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