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Italian School

15th century

Man Carrying Bundle of Wood and Fruit

ca. 1475-1500

Pen and brown ink, over black chalk, with red chalk wash, on laid paper.

7 13/16 x 6 9/16 inches (198 x 166 mm)

Gift of Janos Scholz.

1980.75

Notes:

Watermark: none.
Formerly attributed to Marco Zoppo, Cento 1432/3-1478 Venice; Bernardo Parentino, ca. 1437-1531.

Inscription:

Inscribed at upper left edge, in pen and brown ink, "del rufo?"; at upper right, in pen and brown ink, "Squarcione".

Provenance:

Antonio II Badile (1424/25-1507-12), Verona; Antonio III Badile (1518-1560), Verona; Moscardo collection, Verona, which passed to the Marquis de Calceolari (no mark; see Lugt S. 2990a-g); Count Lodovico Moscardo (1611-1681), Verona; by descent to Teresa Moscardo Miniscalchi, Verona; Count Mario Miniscalchi-Erizzo, Verona; Francis Matthiesen (1897-1963), London; London art market in 1950s; János Scholz (1903-1993), New York (no mark; see Lugt S. 2933b).

Associated names:

Zoppo, Marco, 1433-1478, Formerly attributed to.
Parenzano, Bernardo, 1437-1531, Formerly attributed to.
Badile, Antonio, former owner.
Badile, Antonio, 1518-1560, former owner.
Calceolari, marquis de, former owner.
Moscardo, Lodovico, 1611-1681, former owner.
Miniscalchi, Teresa Moscardo, former owner.
Miniscalchi-Erizzo, Mario, 1881-1957, 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. 10.
Selected references: New York 1959, no. 5; Oakland and San Francisco 1959, no. 81; Detroit 1960, no. 15; Scholz 1960, 229; Mantua 1961, no. 133; Longhi 1962, 21; Cologne 1963-64, no. 176; New Haven 1964, no. 18; Ruhmer 1966, no. 4; Los Angeles and Seattle 1967, no. 61; Andrews 1968, 1:87; Degenhart and Schmitt 1968-2010, 3: no. 790; London and elsewhere 1968, no. 110; New York 1971, no. 98; Levenson, Oberhuber, and Sheehan 1973, 232; Armstrong 1976, no. D.15; Montgomery 1976, no. 5; Scholz 1976, no. 7; Notre Dame 1980, no. 132; Fellows Report 19 1981, 223; Vienna and Budapest 1988- 89, no. 4; Schulze Altcappenberg 1995, 75; Weimar 1999, under no. 1; Karet and Windows 2005, 34-35, no. 9r/1; Rossi 2010, 444; Karet 2014, 9-10, 19; Karet 2018, 22.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Nineteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978-1980. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981, p. 223.
Venetian Drawings from the Collection of János Scholz. Montgomery, Ala. : Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, 1976, no. 5, repr. (includes previous bibliography and exhibitions).
Scholz, Italian Master Drawings, 1976, no. 7, repr.
Scholz, Notre Dame, 1980, no. 132.

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