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Italian School
16th century
Study for a Kneeling Saint Looking Upward and Holding a Staff
Pen and brown ink, over black chalk, on blue laid paper, now altered to gray-green.
8 1/8 x 6 3/16 inches (205 x 158 mm)
Gift of János Scholz.
1992.60
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Watermark: none.
Formerly attributed to Agostino Carracci, Bologna 1557-1602 Parma.
Inscription:
Inscribed at upper right in pen and brown ink, "A. Caracci"; also at upper right, [illegible]; on verso at lower right in pen and gray ink, "No 80".
Provenance:
Boguslaw Jolles (Lugt 381); (Lugt S. 381a); his sale, Munich, Hugo Helbing, 28-31 October 1895, 13, lot 123 (as Annibale Carracci); Walter Schatzki, New York, 1940; János Scholz, New York (no mark; see Lugt S. 2933b).
Associated names:
Carracci, Agostino, 1557-1602, Formerly attributed to.
Jolles, Boguslaw, former owner.
Helbing, Hugo, former owner.
Schatzki, Walter, 1899-1983, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Bibliography:
Neumeyer, Alfred, and János Scholz. Drawings from Bologna 1520-1800. Oakland : Mills College Art Gallery, 1957, no. 15.
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