Bonzi, Pietro Paolo

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Bonzi, Pietro Paolo
ca. 1575-1636
Landscape with a Boy Releasing a Bird
Pen and brown ink on light brown laid paper; framing line in pen and brown ink.
8 7/8 x 13 3/4 inches (225 x 349 mm)
Gift of János Scholz.
1984.50
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Watermark: none.

Inscription: 

Inscribed at lower right in pen and brown ink, "Le Gobbo des Carrac[hes]".

Provenance: 
Dan Fellows Platt, Englewood, NJ (no mark; see Lugt S. 750a and 2066b); János Scholz, New York (see Lugt S. 2933b).
Associated names: 

Platt, Dan Fellows, 1873-1938, 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. 321.
Alfred Moir, ed. Drawings by Seventeenth Century Italian Masters from the Collection of János Scholz. Santa Barbara : Art Galleries, University of California, 1974, no. 14, repr.

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