Attributed to David Loggan

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1635-1700?

Bust-Length Portrait of a Young Woman

1672

Graphite, some stumping, on vellum.

4 1/4 x 3 7/16 inches (105 x 87 mm), oval

Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.

2004.49:50

Notes:

Fol. 32, no. 50 in the Bull Album.
Mounted directly to album leaf; lacks decorative border.
Attributed to David Loggan in Fairfax Murray.

Inscription:

Inscribed (signed?) and dated at lower right: D.L. / deli[n] [cut off] / 167[cut off]; above this in another hand: 1672; on album leaf at lower right of drawing in graphite: by D.L..[?] / 1672; in another hand, overwriting the "L" in previous inscription: Loggan / signed / D.L. 1672; at upper left of drawing: x 27; at upper right of drawing: 50.

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, 4, repr.

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