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Workshop of Luca Cambiaso
1527-1585
Sea-Nymph and Two Putti Astride a Dolphin. Verso of lining: Sketch of a Vase
Pen and brown ink and wash, on paper; cut to an irregular shape; verso: red chalk.
14 3/16 x 9 7/8 inches (318 x 242 mm; maximum dimensions)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
I, 103
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Watermark: none.
Inscription:
Inscribed on mount at lower left, in black ink, "Cambiaso"; to the right of this, in graphite(?) effaced inscription; at lower right, in graphite, "ed".
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.
Bibliography:
New York 1939, 21, no. 71; Mongan and Sachs 1940, I, no. 75.
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, I, 103, repr.
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