Attributed to Francesco Melzi

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Attributed to Francesco Melzi
1491 or 1493-approximately 1570
Grotesque Heads of a Woman and a Man
Pen and brown ink, over traces of black chalk?, on paper.
2 1/4 x 4 3/16 inches (54 x 106 mm)
Gift of Edward Fowles.
1968.10
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Watermark: none.
After Leonardo da Vinci; formerly attributed to Leonardo Da Vinci, Anchiano near Vinci 1452-1519 Amboise near Tours.

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Earl of Pembroke, Wiltshire (no mark, see Lugt S. 2636b?); sale, London, Sotheby's, 10 July 1917, no. 466 with other drawings; Bacri Frères, Paris; from whom purchased in about 1924 by Edward Fowles, New York.
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Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519, After.
Pembroke, Earl of, former owner.
Fowles, Edward, former owner.

Bibliography: 

Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Sixteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1969-1971. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1973, p. 117.

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