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Francesco Guardi
1712-1793
Seated Turk with a Leopard
Pen and brown ink, over black chalk, with white tempera, on blue paper.
13 3/4 x 15 1/4 inches (350 x 386 mm)
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1974.33
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Watermark: none.
Provenance:
Unidentified collector's mark at lower left corner; János Scholz, New York (see Lugt S. 2933b).
Associated names:
Scholz, János, former owner.
Bibliography:
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Seventeenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1972-1974. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1976, p. 169.
Stampfle, Felice, and Jacob Bean. Drawings from New York collections. III: The eighteenth century in Italy. New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1971, no. 214, repr.
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