Bernardino Campi

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Bernardino Campi
1521-1591
Standing Male Figure with Right Arm Raised
ca. 1570-1580
Black chalk, with white chalk, on blue paper; squared in black chalk.
9 5/8 x 6 1/4 inches (244 x 159 mm)
Gift of János Scholz.
1980.49
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Watermark: none.

Inscription: 

Inscribed on verso, in pen and brown ink, partially obscured by mount, "Antonio Campi".

Provenance: 
Benno Geiger (1882-1965), Vienna and Venice (according to Janos Scholz records); probably his sale, Venice, 25 January 1952; Cassini, Venice (according to Janos Scholz records); purchased in Venice in 1954 by Janos Scholz (1903-1993), New York (see Lugt Suppl. 2933b).
Associated names: 

Geiger, Benno, 1882-1965, former owner.
Cassini, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.

Bibliography: 

Oakland and elsewhere 1956, no. 13; Hamburg and Cologne 1963-64, no. 24; Scholz 1976, no. 53; Eitel-Porter and Marciari 2019, 52-53.
Scholz, Janos. Italian Master Drawings, 1350-1800, from the János Scholz Collection. New York : Dover, 1976, no. 53, repr.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Nineteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978-1980. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981, p. 181.

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