Orazio Samacchini

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Orazio Samacchini

1532-1577

Seated Prophet with Angel and Two Putti

1575-1576

Pen and brown ink and wash on laid paper.

10 1/8 x 15 5/8 inches (252 x 396 mm)

Gift of Janos Scholz.

1981.20

Notes:

Watermark: none visible through lining.

Inscription:

Inscribed at lower left in black chalk (illegible).

Provenance:

Dukes of Savoy, Aosta, Turin (Lugt S. 47a), and by descent to Tommaso Alberto Vittorio di Savoia-Genova (1854-1931), 12th Duke of Genova, Turin (L. 47a); Antonio Abrate (1834-1925), Turin, by 1881; Ernesto Bertarelli (1873-1957), Milan; possibly Francis Matthiesen (1898-1963), Geneva and London, by 1940; purchased in Turin in 1951 by Janos Scholz, New York (1903-1993; no mark; see Lugt S. 2933b)

Associated names:

Savoia-Genova, Tommaso di, 1854-1931, former owner.
Abrate, Antonio, 1834-1925, former owner.
Bertarelli, Ernesto, 1873- former owner.
Matthiesen, Francis, 1897-1963, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.

Bibliography:

Rhoda Eitel-Porter and and John Marciari, Italian Renaissance Drawings at the Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 2019, no. 119.
Selected references: Washington and New York 1973-74, no. 49; Cleveland 1981, no. 94; Ottawa 1982, no. 15; Cremona 1985, under no. 2.15; Fortunati Pietrantonio 1986, 2:643; Stanzani 1990, 74; Paris 1992, under no. 61.
Oberhuber, Konrad, and Dean Walker. Sixteenth Century Italian Drawings From the Collection of János Scholz. Washington, D.C. : National Gallery of Art ; New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1973-19, no. 49, repr.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twentieth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981-1983. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984, p. 297.

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