After Andrea del Sarto

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After Andrea del Sarto

1486-1530

Head and Shoulders of a Young Man Seen Full Face

Black chalk on paper; framing lines in brown ink.

14 15/16 x 9 5/16 inches (379 x 236 mm)

Gift of Janos Scholz.

1986.91

Notes:

A copy of the head of St. Fedele in the painting Virgin in Glory with Four Saints, begun in 1529 by Andrea del Sarto and completed by studio assistants.

Inscription:

Inscribed at lower right in pen and brown ink, "anibal carache".
Watermark: Crossed arrows surmounted by a six-pointed star (Briquet 6292/93: Florence 1510-20).

Provenance:

Joseph Gulston (1744(?)-1786), Ealing Grove, London (formerly pseudo-Crozat; Lugt 474); Henry Stephen Olivier, Potterne Manor, Wiltshire (1796-1866; Lugt S. 1373); purchased in London in 1937 by Janos Scholz, New York (no mark; see Lugt S. 2933b).

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Associated names:

Bronzino, Agnolo, 1503-1572, Formerly attributed to.
Pseudo-Crozat, former owner.
Olivier, Henry Stephen, 1796-1866, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.

Bibliography:

Drawings from Tuscany and Umbria, 1350-1700. Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, University of California Art Gallery, Berkeley. Berkeley : Gillick, 1961, no. 14, repr.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twenty-First Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984-1986. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1989, p. 378.

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