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Attributed to Sir Godfrey Kneller
1646-1723
Portrait of a Man (Nicolas Cosimo?). Verso: Unfinished Study of a Man's Face and Counterproof of a Portrait of a Woman
11 x 7 1/4 inches (280 x 185 mm)
Red chalk on paper prepared with a salmon-colored wash.
2004.49:29
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Notes
Fol. 12, no. 29 in the Bull Album.
Drawing mounted to album leaf over decorative border.
Not in Fairfax Murray.
Attributed to Sir Godfrey Kneller in handlist of album. Sitter identified as "Nicolas Cosimus or Cosimo, violinist" in handlist of album.
Drawing mounted to album leaf over decorative border.
Not in Fairfax Murray.
Attributed to Sir Godfrey Kneller in handlist of album. Sitter identified as "Nicolas Cosimus or Cosimo, violinist" in handlist of album.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed at lower right in graphite: 5 /; on verso at lower center: Nic. Cosimus by Kneller / gravé par Smith; on album leaf at lower center beneath drawing in graphite: Nic. Cosimo by Kneller / (engraved by Smith); beyond upper right corner of drawing: 29; within decorative border at lower left offset in reverse from verso of drawing originally mounted on this leaf: 1736 [illegible]; at lower center: [illegible].
Associated names
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806, former owner.
Thibaudeau, Alphonse Wyatt, 1840-1893, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. P. (John Pierpont), 1867-1943, former owner.
Thibaudeau, Alphonse Wyatt, 1840-1893, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. P. (John Pierpont), 1867-1943, former owner.
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Century Drawings
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