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Concert: Group of Figures Singing

Circle of Nicolò dell' Abate
approximately 1509-1571

Concert: Group of Figures Singing

ca. 1550-1560
4 7/8 x 9 inches (124 x 229 mm)
Pen and brown ink and wash, with opaque white watercolor, over black chalk, on laid paper.
1993.235

Gift of Janos Scholz.

Description

The present drawing is a copy, with some minor changes, of a painting formerly in the collection of Arthur Kay and sold at auction in 1929 as by Giorgione, but since attributed to Nicolò dell’Abate.1 The scene is very similar to the fresco decorations in the Sala dei Concerti on the piano nobile in Palazzo Poggi, Bologna (now Biblioteca Universitaria, via Zamboni), painted by Nicolò dell’Abate, ca. 1550-51.2

Footnotes:

  1. Christie’s, London, 22 March, 1929, lot. 140; Oakland and elsewhere 1957, no. 1.
  2. Fortunati and Mumeci 2000, 168, 175.
Inscriptions/Markings
Watermark: none visible through lining.
Associated names
Kay, Arthur, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Bibliography
Selected references: Oakland and elsewhere 1957, no. 1 (as Nicolò dell'Abate); Bologna 1969, 108-09, under no. 50 (as not Nicolò dell'Abate).
Neumeyer, Alfred, and János Scholz. Drawings from Bologna 1520-1800. Oakland : Mills College Art Gallery, 1957, no. 1, repr.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department