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Giovanni Ambrogio Figino
1552 or 3-1608
Anatomical Studies: Arms, Left Legs, and Heads in Profile. Verso: Anatomical Studies of Right Arms, and Study of Head and Arms of a Man, Looking Left
Red chalk on laid paper; verso: red chalk.
16 7/8 x 11 1/4 inches (430 x 287 mm)
Gift of Janos Scholz.
1993.399
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Inscribed at center, in red chalk, by the artist, [illegible]; at lower right, in pen and brown ink, "figino"; at upper left, in pen and black ink, "364"; in graphite, "1434"; at upper right, "G146".
Watermark: Glove with ruff at cuff, pointing to six-petaled flower.
Provenance:
Giuseppe Vallardi, Locarno (Lugt 1223); unidentified collector (mark: a crest? in black on verso at lower left); Ferruccio Asta, Venice?; from whom purchased in 1950? Janos Scholz, New York (no mark; see Lugt S. 2933b).
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Vallardi, Giuseppe, 1784-1861, former owner.
Asta, Ferruccio, 1900-1952, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
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