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Giulio Romano
1499-1546
Charon Conducting Souls Across the Styx
Pen and brown ink, gray-brown wash, on vellum.
7 3/8 x 8 9/16 inches (188 x 218 mm)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
IV, 16g
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Watermark: none.
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Inscribed at upper left, in pen and brown ink, "1548"; on verso, at center, in pen and brown ink, "42", and in black chalk, "Giulio.? Romano.../247".
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:
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
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