Jonathan Richardson

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Jonathan Richardson

1665-1745

Portrait of a Woman (Mrs. Blundel?)

Graphite and metalpoint on prepared paper; double framing line in graphite.

4 3/4 x 4 1/16 inches (121 x 104 mm)

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

2004.49:16

Notes:

Fol. 5, no. 16 in the Bull Album.
Not in Fairfax Murray.
Attributed to Jonathan Richardson Sr. in handlist of album.

Inscription:

Inscribed at lower left in graphite: Mrs. [rs superscript] [period under "rs"] Blundel. April. 1735.; at lower right: R.; on verso at upper center: My mother / [illegible] W[?] Black; at lower center: Thus Smil'd the Virgin, Thus the Matron Smil'd, / but, Innocent nor Flatter'd nor Beguil'd / [cut off]; at lower right of decorative border: (signed); on album sheet beyond upper right corner of decorative border: 16. Collector's mark of Jonathan Richardson Sr. inscribed at lower right in graphite, R.

Provenance:

Jonathan Richardson Sr. (Lugt 2183); 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:

Richardson, Jonathan, 1665-1745, former owner.
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.

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