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Andrea Schiavone
ca. 1500-1563
St. John the Baptist Preaching in the Wilderness
Pen and brown ink and wash, with white, over black chalk, on blue paper; outlines pricked for transfer; ruled framing lines at right and bottom, in pen and brown ink.
8 7/16 x 11 3/4 inches ( 215 x 300 mm)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
IV, 80
Inscription:
Inscribed on verso of lining, at lower center, in graphite, "5"; to the right of this, in graphite, "Schiavone".
Watermark: Indecipherable fragment in a circle.
Provenance:
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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Associated names:
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Bibliography:
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, IV, 80, repr.
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