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Paolo Farinati
1524-1606
Female Martyr Overcoming Satan
1574
Pen and brown ink and wash, with lead white opaque watercolor, over black chalk, on blue paper.
16 3/8 x 10 5/8 inches (417 x 269 mm)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
IV, 79a
Inscription:
Inscribed on verso at upper right, in pen and brown ink, "27 nov 1574 / 9 dece[m]bre"; at upper left, "K no 34"; on recto of mount, at lower center, just beneath drawing, in graphite, "Paolo Farinato. 1522-1594".
Watermark: Letters "AP".
Provenance:
Nathaniel Hone (Lugt 2793); John McGouan or MacGowan (Lugt 1496 as MacGowan); Sir Thomas Lawrence (Lugt 2445); 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:
Hone, Nathaniel, 1718-1784, former owner.
MacGowan, John, -1803, former owner.
Lawrence, Thomas, Sir, 1769-1830, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
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