Andrea del Sarto

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Andrea del Sarto

1486-1530

Standing Man Turned to the Right

1528

Red chalk and red chalk wash, on pink-washed paper; framing line in gold paint over inked line.

11 x 6 15/16 inches (277 x 174 mm)

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

I, 31

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Watermark: possibly a snake or letter S; barely visible due to thickness of backing sheet.

Inscription:

Inscribed at lower right, in gold, "Salvequi[Velasquez(?)] f. 1570"; to the right of this, in pen and brown ink, "44"; on verso of lining, at lower left, in pen and brown ink, "Ill II d / Andrea del Sarto (cancelled) 6 1/2 d (written above) / LeValasque f. 1570 / geb:[oren] Roussin(?) 1530 / gestorzan - 1591 / £Lf".

Provenance:

François Renaud, Paris (Lugt S. 1042); Cornelius Ploos van Amstel (1726-1798; no mark, but the inscription in brown ink on the verso is his; see Lugt 2034); his sale, Amsterdam, 3 March 1800, lot BB/15; purchased there by Christiaan Josi; Joseph Bonomi (1739-1808), London; his sale, Philipe, London, 16 May 1808, lot 585; Heneage Finch, 5th Earl of Aylesford (1786-1859; no mark; see Lugt 58), London and Packington, Old Hall, Warwickshire; his sale, Christie's, London, 17-18 July 1893, lot 286 [or 296?]; 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:

Renaud, François, former owner.
Ploos van Amstel, Cornelis, 1726-1798, former owner.
Aylesford, Heneage Finch, Earl of, 1786-1859, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Morgan, J. P. (John Pierpont), 1867-1943, former owner.

Bibliography:

Rhoda Eitel-Porter and and John Marciari, Italian Renaissance Drawings at the Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 2019, no. 24.
Selected references: Fairfax Murray 1905-12, 1:31; Di Pietro 1910, 83n1; Fraenckel 1935, 187; Berenson 1938, 1:293, 2: no. 141; Northampton 1941, no. 18; Mongan 1942, 93; Baltimore 1961, no. 34; Berenson 1961, 1:429, 2: no. 141; Freedberg 1963, 2:170; Monti 1965, 179n180; Shearman 1965, 2:273, 366-67; New York 1981, under no. 16; Petrioli Tofani 1985, under no. 38; Florence 1986-87, under no. 83; Paris 1986-87, under no. 57; Oberlin and elsewhere 1991-92, no. 45; New York and Chicago 1994, no. 19.
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, I, no. 31, repr.
Denison, Cara D., and Helen B. Mules, with the assistance of Jane V. Shoaf. European Drawings, 1375-1825. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981, p.44, no. 16.

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