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Gerolamo Brusaferro
1677-1745
Charity. Verso: same subject
Pen and brown ink and wash, over black chalk on laid paper; gray wash border added by a later hand; verso: black chalk.
6 3/4 x 8 3/4 inches (171 x 223 mm)
Gift of János Scholz.
1987.47
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Inscription:
Inscribed at lower left, in pen and brown ink, "1731 nov"; on secondary support [lining?] at lower center, "Brusaferro Veneziano"; at lower right, "voltate Carrta". Inscribed on the verso, at upper left, "A (upside down)" and at lower right, "Voltate Carta".
Provenance:
Armand-Francois-Louis de Mestral de St. Saphorin, Switzerland; purchased in Aubonne in 1973 by János Scholz, New York (no mark; see Lugt S. 2933b).
Bibliography:
Venetian Drawings from the Collection of János Scholz. Montgomery, Ala. : Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, 1976, no. 66, repr. (verso)
Notes:
Watermark: none.
Associated names:
Saint-Saphorin, Armand-François-Louis de Mestral de, 1738-1805, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
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