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Young Man, Seen from the Back, Looking into a Sack

Italian School
16th century

Young Man, Seen from the Back, Looking into a Sack

5 15/16 x 2 1/2 inches (149 x 64 mm)
Red chalk, and red, blue and brown wash, on paper.
1986.74

Gift of Janos Scholz.

Notes
Watermark: none.
Possible attribution to Benozzo Gozzoli, called Benozzo il Lese, Florence 1420-1497 Pistoia.
Gozzoli worked as an assistant to Ghiberti in Florence from 1444-47, and this drawings may relate to the subject of Joseph on Ghiberti's bronze Doors of Paradise of the Baptistry.
Associated names
Benozzo, di Lese, 1420-1497, Questionable attribution.
Savoia-Aôsta, former owner.
Scholz, János, donor.
Bibliography
Gilbert, Creighton et al. Drawings of the Italian Renaissance from the Scholz Collection. Bloomington : Indiana University Art Center, 1958, no. 4.
Scholz, Janos. Four Centuries of Italian Drawings from the Scholz Collection. Hagerstown, Md. : Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, 1960, no. 1.
Drawings from Tuscany and Umbria, 1350-1700. Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, University of California Art Gallery, Berkeley. Berkeley : Gillick, 1961, no. 43.
Italienische Meisterzeichnungen vom 14. bis zum 18. Jahrhundert aus amerikanischem Besitz : Die Sammlung Janos Scholz, New York. Hamburg : H. Christians, 1963, no. 72.
Italian Drawings from the Collection of Janos Scholz : a loan exhibition, April 23-June 7, 1964, Yale University Art Gallery. New Haven : Yale University Art Gallery, 1964, no. 8.
Tuscan and Venetian Drawings of the Quattrocento from the Collection of Janos Scholz. Los Angeles : Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1967, no. 21, repr.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twenty-First Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984-1986. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1989, p. 345.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department