Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Woman Holding a Fan. Verso: Sketch of a woman's head

Attributed to Benedetto Caliari
1538-1598

Woman Holding a Fan. Verso: Sketch of a woman's head

10 1/8 x 6 7/8 inches (257 x 174 mm)
Black and white chalk, on blue laid paper altered to green-gray; verso: black chalk.
1982.69

Gift of Janos Scholz.

Notes
Watermark: none.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed on verso in black chalk, "la Cremesa(?) / verzin.(?)"; at upper center, pen and brown ink, "Aqueta(?) 487"; at lower center, in pen and brown ink, "I.T. n:̊ 30".
Associated names
Veronese, Paolo 1528-1588, Formerly attributed to.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Bibliography
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twentieth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981-1983. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984, p. 244.
Scholz, London, 1968, no. 107 (includes previous bibliography and exhibitions)
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department