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Giovanni Battista Gaulli
1639-1709
Portrait of Pope Alexander VIII
Red and black chalk on light brown paper.
14 5/8 x 9 5/8 inches (371 x 244 mm)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
IV, 175
Notes:
Formerly attributed to Gian Lorenzo Bernini.
In his 2009 monograph on Gaulli (p. 138, 163, 374), Francesco Petrucci links the drawing to Gaulli's portrait of Alexander VII, location unknown, formerly with the antiquario Viancini in Venice. Brauer and Wittkower (1931) and Martinelli (1950) proposed the reattribution of the drawing from Bernini to Gaulli.
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.
Associated names:
Bernini, Gian Lorenzo, 1598-1680, Formerly attributed to.
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, 175, repr.
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