Amico Aspertini

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Amico Aspertini

1474-1552

Crucifixion

ca. 1501-1504

Black chalk, reinforced in some areas with graphite, on light brown paper.

15 x 11 inches (382 x 278 mm)

Gift of János Scholz.

1981.18

Notes:

Watermark: none visible through lining.

Inscription:

Inscribed at upper right, in pen and black ink, "TI".

Provenance:

Johann Peter Nepomuk Geiger (1805-1880), Vienna (according to János Scholz records); Benno Geiger, Vienna; probably his sale, Venice, 5 January 1952; Cassini, Venice (according to János Scholz records); Hans M. Calmann (1899-1982), London (according to János Scholz records); purchased in London in 1953 by János Scholz (1903-1993), New York (see Lugt Suppl. 2933b).

Associated names:

Geiger, Peter Johann Nepomuk, 1805-1880, former owner.
Geiger, Benno, 1882-1965, former owner.
Cassini, former owner.
Calmann, Hans M., 1899-1982, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.

Bibliography:

Oakland and elsewhere 1957, no. 5; Notre Dame 1964, no. 4; Venturoli 1969, 425, note 51; Notre Dame 1967, no. 4; Ottowa 1982, 43, no. 2; Tambini 1991, 25-26; Kügelgen 1992, 443; Faietti and Scaglietti Kelescian 1995, 244-246, no. 29; Gottardo 2005, 242-243, no. 6.
Murano, Michelangelo. Venetian Drawings from the Collection János Scholz. Venice : N. Pozza, 1957, no. 5, repr.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twentieth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981-1983. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984, p. 233.

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