Lorenzo Franchi

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Lorenzo Franchi
1565-1630
The Martyrdom of St. Cecilia
Red chalk, red chalk wash, with white chalk, over black chalk, on paper; frame of pale green wash bordered in pen and brown ink, all squared for transfer in graphite; verso: figures from recto traced in black chalk.
13 x 8 1/16 inches (330 x 204 mm)
Gift of János Scholz.
1992.111

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Watermark: none.
Study for the altarpiece now in Santa Maria della Carità, Bologna (see Mostra di Lorenzo Franchi (1565-1632), exh. cat. by Elio Monducci and Massimo Pirondini, Reggio Emilia, Palazzo del Capitano del Popolo, 1976, 54, no. 19, pl. 28).

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Inscribed on verso at lower center in pen and black ink, "Lorenzo Franchi Scolaro del Procacini / In S: Nicolo di S: Felice. _ _"; numbered at upper left in pen and gray-brown ink, "2".

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Dr. Max A. Goldstein, St. Louis (no mark; see Lugt 2824); János Scholz, New York (no mark; see Lugt S. 2933b).
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Goldstein, Max A. (Max Aaron), 1870-1941, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.

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