Circle of Michelangelo Buonarroti

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Circle of Michelangelo Buonarroti

1475-1564

Serpent, Turned to the Right, in a Narrow Frieze

ca. 1530

Black chalk on paper.

1 1/2 x 5 3/8 inches (39 x 137 mm)

Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.

II, 32a

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Watermark: none.
One of thirty four sixteenth-century Italian drawings formerly mounted in a nineteenth-century album, the Cesare da Sesto Album.
Formerly attributed to Camillo Boccacino, Cremona 1504/5-1546 Cremona.

Inscription:

Inscribed on verso, at upper left, in pen and purple ink, "Questo libro".

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:

Boccaccino, Camillo, 1504-1546, Formerly attributed to.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.

Bibliography:

Bernick 2019, 152-53; Penny 2019, 28-29.
Charles Fairfax Murray, Collection of Drawings by the Old Masters formed by C. Fairfax Murray (J. Pierpont Morgan Collection), 4 vols, London 1905-1912 [I: Collection J. Pierpont Morgan. Drawings by the Old Masters formed by C. Fairfax Murray; A Selection from the Collection of Drawings by the Old Masters formed by C. Fairfax Murray [1905]; IV: J. Pierpont Morgan Collection of Drawings by the Old Masters formed by C. Fairfax Murray], II, no. tk, repr. (Cesare da Sesto).

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