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Ercole Bazzicaluva
ca. 1610-after 1661.
View of the Arno Valley with the Villa Ambrogiana
Pen and brown ink over black chalk on laid paper.
5 1/8 x 7 1/2 inches (131 x 191 mm)
Gift of János Scholz.
1984.51
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Watermark: none.
This view, typical of the pen and ink landscapes for which Bazzicaluva is best known, is a variant version of a drawing dated 1633 (a rare instance of the artist dating his work), now in the Biblioteca Marucelliana, Florence.
Inscription:
Inscribed on mount beneath drawing in pen and black ink, "Remigio Cantagallina".
Provenance:
Charles Lang, New York; Plaza Art Galleries, New York; Walter Schatzki, New York; from whom acquired in 1949 by János Scholz, New York (no mark; see Lugt S. 2933b).
Associated names:
Lang, Charles, former owner.
Schatzki, Walter, 1899-1983, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Bibliography:
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twenty-First Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984-1986. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1989, p. 318.
Italian Landscape Drawings from the Collection of János Scholz. Durham, N.C. : The Gallery, Department of Art, Duke Univesity, 1965, no. 10, repr.
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