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Palma il Giovane
1544-1628
Portrait of Giovanni Valsilacchi
1606
Pen and brown ink, over red chalk, and black chalk, on paper; framing lines in brown and gray-brown ink.
5 7/8 x 3 7/8 inches (146 x 98 mm)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
IV, 82:3
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Watermark: none.
Inscription:
Inscribed at top, in pen and brown ink, "1606 adi 20 zugno [i.e. giugno] nasce 1606 / Gianni vascilachi di etta di/ ani quatro e misi sie [i.e. mesi sei; aged 4 1/2 years] che / tanto vi[s]se di un giudizio gumo[mo superscript] [giutissimo(?)] morsi adi / 20 di dic[embre] / 1610".
Provenance:
Charles Fairfax Murray, London; from whom purchased in London in 1910 by J. Pierpont Morgan (no mark; see Lugt 1509).
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, 82, repr.
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