Attributed to Carlo Maratti

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Attributed to Carlo Maratti
1625-1713
Head and Arms of a Girl Holding up a Basket with a Detail of a Left Arm
Red chalk on gray paper.
5 7/16 x 6 15/16 inches (138 x 176 mm)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
I, 152c
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Numbered at center of old mount, with Knapton code, in pen and brown ink, "D.d.49"; at upper right, "1N / L31".

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George Knapton, London; bequeathed to General George Morrison; Sir Joseph Hawley, 3rd Baronet, Kent; his sale, London, Christie's, 16 July 1891, one of five in lot 208 (as Adriaen Vandervelde); 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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Velde, Adriaen van de, 1636-1672, Formerly attributed to.
Knapton, George, 1698-1778, former owner.
Morrison, George, 1704?-1799, former owner.
Hawley, Joseph Henry, Sir, 1813-1875, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.

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