Pomponio Amalteo

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Pomponio Amalteo

1505-1588

Liberation of a Possessed Woman as She is Passed by St. Titian's Body. Verso: The Body of Saint Titian Being Pulled by Angels Up the River Livenza

1534

Pen and brown ink and wash, with white opaque watercolor, over black chalk, on blue laid paper. Verso: pen and brown ink and wash, with white opaque watercolor, over black chalk.

8 3/8 x 10 1/2 inches (212 x 267 mm)

Gift of János Scholz.

1982.25

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Watermark: none.
Formerly attributed to Giovanni Antonio Pordenone, Pordenone 1483?-1539 Ferrara.

Inscription:

Inscribed by the artist at lower center in pen and brown ink: "o fortuna;" on verso at lower left in pen and brown ink: "Pordenone"; on fragment of old mount (in departmental files), in pen and brown ink: "Gioan Antonio da Pordenone".

Provenance:

Francesco Calceolari, Verona (according to János Scholz's records); Count Ludovico Moscardo (1611-1681), Verona (according to János Scholz's records); János Scholz (1903-1993), New York (see Lugt Suppl. 2933b).

Associated names:

Pordenone, Giovanni Antonio, 1484?-1539, Formerly attributed to.
Calzolari, Francesco, 1522-1609, former owner.
Moscardo, Lodovico, 1611-1681, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.

Bibliography:

Cohen 1975, 19-27; Cohen 1980, 33-34, 39, fig. 141; Pordenone 1980, 45, 80, 87, 102-03, fig. 10 (recto); Truant 1981, 81, fig. 3-4; Turin 1990, 138; Florence 2001, 452, no. 105.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twentieth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981-1983. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984, p. 232.

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