Giovanni Martinelli

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Giovanni Martinelli
1602-1672
The Feast of Belshazzar. Verso: figure studies
Red chalk on laid paper; verso: pen and brown ink.
7 3/16 x 5 7/8 inches (183 x 150 mm)
Gift of János Scholz.
1986.48

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Watermark: none.
Study for the painting in the Uffizi dated ca. 1653.
Formerly attributed to Lorenzo Lippi and Jacopo Confortini.

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Acquired in London in 1973 by János Scholz, New York (see Lugt S. 2933b).
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Lippi, Lorenzo, 1606-1664, Formerly attributed to.
Confortini, Jacopo, 1602-1672, Formerly attributed to.
Scholz, János, former owner.

Bibliography: 

Alfred Moir, ed. Drawings by Seventeenth Century Italian Masters from the Collection of János Scholz. Santa Barbara : Art Galleries, University of California, 1974, no. 35, repr.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twenty-First Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984-1986. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1989, p. 360.

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