Polidoro da Caravaggio

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Polidoro da Caravaggio
approximately 1495-approximately 1543
Christ on the Mount of Olives (Agony in the Garden)
ca. 1530
Pen and brown ink and wash, with lead white opaque watercolor, over black chalk, on blue laid paper faded to green-gray; squared for transfer in black chalk.
15 1/16 x 10 1/14 inches (382 x 260 mm)
Gift of Janos Scholz.
1979.55
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Watermark: none.

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Inscribed on verso, at upper edge, in pen and brown ink, "Poccetti(?)"; in center, "HIS", and "Tari 4(?) [crossed out]".

Provenance: 
Giovanni Piancastelli, Rome (1845-1926; no mark; see Lugt S. 2078a), Bologna; Edward (1857-1933) and Mary (1871-1956) Brandagee, Boston (no mark; see Lugt S. 1860c); Janos Scholz, New York (1903-1993; no mark; see Lugt S. 2933b).
Associated names: 

Piancastelli, Giovanni, 1845-1926, former owner.
Brandegee, Edward, former owner.
Brandegee, Mary, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.

Bibliography: 

Rhoda Eitel-Porter and and John Marciari, Italian Renaissance Drawings at the Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 2019, no. 43.
Selected references: Kultzen 1961, 25n31, and pl. 15a; Marabottini 1969, 1:317, no. 75; 2: no. 4; Scholz 1976, 14, no. 37; Ravelli 1978, 107-8, no. 29; Fellows Report 19 1981, 180-81; Notre Dame 1983, 71, no. 35; Leone de Castris 2001, 482-83, no. 179.
Nineteenth report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978-1980 / edited by Charles Ryskamp. New York : The Library, 1981, p. 180-181.
Scholz, Washington, D.C.-New York, 1973-1974, no. 3, repr. (includes previous bibliography and exhibition).
Scholz, Janos. Italian Master Drawings, 1350-1800, from the János Scholz Collection. New York : Dover, 1976, no. 37, repr.

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