Attributed to Donato Creti

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Attributed to Donato Creti
1671-1749
David Standing Beside the Head of Goliath in a Landscape
Pen and brown ink, over black chalk, on paper.
14 5/16 x 9 3/8 inches (364 x 238 mm)
Gift of Janos Scholz.
1992.94
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Inscribed on mount at lower right in pen and brown ink, "AA50."; on verso of mount at lower right in pen and dark brown ink, "A".
Watermark: None on drawing. Watermark on mount: Three crescents in a row, decreasing in size.

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Armand-Francois-Louis de Mestral de St. Saphorin, Switzerland; purchased in Aubonne in 1973 by Janos Scholz, New York (see Lugt S. 2933b).
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Saint-Saphorin, Armand-François-Louis de Mestral de, 1738-1805, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.

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