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Giacomo Francia
before 1486-1557
Heads of the Virgin and St. Anne
Black and white chalk, on blue laid paper altered to gray-brown.
7 7/8 x 14 3/8 inches (199 x 365 mm)
Gift of János Scholz.
1992.112
Notes:
Watermark: none visible through lining.
Inscription:
Inscribed at lower left, on made up section, in pen and brown ink, cut off; on verso, at upper left, in black chalk, "55? Andrea del Sarto."; at upper right, in pencil, "23" (encircled); at center, "N [o superscript] 48" (cancelled); beneath this, "N [o superscript] 39"; to the right, "44"; at lower left, "5" (encircled).
Provenance:
A. Conger Goodyear; Backus; Curtis O. Baer, New Rochelle, NY; János Scholz, New York (no mark; see Lugt S. 2933b).
Associated names:
Goodyear, A. Conger (Anson Conger), 1877-1964, former owner.
Backus, former owner.
Baer, Curtis O., former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Bibliography:
Scholz 1964, no. 63
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