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Italian school
16th century
Three Vertical Designs for Grotesques
ca. 1500-1503
Red chalk, inscribed with stylus, on laid paper.
12 1/8 x 7 7/8 inches (309 x 200 mm)
Gift of János Scholz.
1989.52

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Watermark: none.
Acquired as Amico Aspertini. Bologna 1474/75-1552 Bologna.

Inscription: 

Inscribed in plaquettes at upper center and at right center, in red chalk, by the artist "ROMA"; on verso, at lower right, in black chalk, "Aspertini / 80"; erased, [three dots in a triangle pattern] "7".

Provenance: 
De Beer, London; from whom purchased in 1963 by János Scholz (1903-1993), New York (no mark; see Lugt S. 2933b).
Associated names: 

Aspertini, Amico, 1474-1552, Formerly attributed to.
Scholz, János, former owner.

Bibliography: 

Faietti and Scaglietti Kelescian 1995, 320, no. 24R.

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