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After Francesco Salviati

1510-1563

Design for a Fireplace (Female Personification of Virtue Triumphing Over Vices)

Pen and brown ink and wash over black chalk on laid paper silhouetted on perimeter mount.

11 5/16 x 12 3/4 inches (288 x 323 mm)

The Joseph F. McCrindle Collection.

2009.257

Notes:

This drawing was given to Francesco Primaticcio (1504-1570) at least since the Jacques Auguste Boussac sale in 1926, and it entered the collection of the Morgan Library & Museum under that attribution. It is, however, a copy, presumably by a sixteenth-century Italian artist, after a preparatory study by Francesco Salviati in the British Museum (inv. 1946-7-13-52) for a fresco in the Palazzo Vecchio, Florence. Catherine Monbeig Goguel dates the original British Museum sheet ca. 1543-1544 (Catherine Monbeig Goguel, Francesco Salviati, 1510-1563, ou, La bella maniera. Paris, 1998, no.55, p. 180).
Formerly attributed to Francesco Primaticcio (1504-1570)

Inscription:

Inscribed at bottom center in pen and brown ink, " [...] P 76"; at lower right in pen and brown ink, "146".

Provenance:

Jacques Auguste Boussac, Paris (b. 1885) (Lugt Supplement 729b); his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 10-11 May 1926, lot 93, as "Le Primatice"; Odette Feder (Joseph McCrindle's mother); Joseph F. McCrindle, New York (McCrindle collection no. A0844).

Associated names:

Boussac, Jacques Auguste, 1885- former owner.
Feder, Odette, former owner.
McCrindle, Joseph F., former owner.
Primaticcio, Francesco, 1504-1570, Formerly attributed to.

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