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

Legs and Lower Torso of a Male Nude

Maso Finiguerra
1426-1464

Legs and Lower Torso of a Male Nude

ca. 1450-1460
6 5/16 x 2 9/16 inches (160 x 63 mm)
Pen and brown ink and wash, over black chalk, on paper.
1986.70:5

Gift of Janos Scholz

Notes
Watermark: none.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed on verso; at left, in graphite, by Scholz?, "Coll. Planiscig; de Sanctis (Sale no. 204)"; in upper right corner, in graphite, "204"; in purple pencil, "180,000".
Associated names
Pollaiolo, Antonio, 1426?-1498, Formerly attributed to.
Pelli-Fabbroni, former owner.
Planiscig, Leo, 1887-1952, former owner.
Sanctis, de, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Bibliography
Selected references: Oakland 1961, no. 68 (as school of Antonio Pollaiuolo); Ames 1964, no. 8 (as school of Antonio Pollaiuolo); Milwaukee 1964, no. 30 (as circle of Antonio Pollaiuolo); Los Angeles and elsewhere 1967-68, no. 47 (as "Antonio Pollaiuolo?"); Degenhart and Schmidt 1968-2010, 1: under no. 620; Fellows Report 1989, 339; Melli 1995, 51, 96, no. 134; Kubiak 1974, 184; Marciari, in New York 2019, 117-18, under no. 18.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twenty-First Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984-1986. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1989, p. 339.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department