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Attributed to Giacomo Cavedone
1577-1660
Study of Two Hands (one with part of a garment, the other with forearm and garment outline). Verso: Study of a Hand
Black chalk, with white chalk, on blue laid paper (altered to gray-green); verso: black chalk, with white chalk.
9 3/4 x 14 15/16 inches (248 x 379 mm)
Gift of János Scholz.
1992.131
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The presence of a wound in one hand on the recto and on the verso suggests these were studies for the hands of possibly St. Francis of Assisi or Christ.
Formerly attributed to Giovanni Lanfranco, 1582-1647.
Watermark: Head in profile with curly hair or crown. Watermark, beta radiograph. head in profile. 141923wm_1992_131_WM_beta.jpg
Provenance:
J.C. Wawra Gallery, Vienna; Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna (no mark; see Lugt 174); Archduke Friedrich of Hapsburg (no mark; see Lugt 960); János Scholz, New York (no mark; see Lugt S. 2933b).
Associated names:
Lanfranco, Giovanni, 1582-1647, Formerly attributed to.
Habsburg, Frederick, 1856-1936, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Bibliography:
Alfred Moir, ed. Drawings by Seventeenth Century Italian Masters from the Collection of János Scholz. Santa Barbara : Art Galleries, University of California, 1974, no. 61, repr.
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