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Italian School

16th cent

A Man Being Stabbed (Death of Pompey?)

ca. 1540-1560

Pen and brown ink and wash, with opaque white, on blue laid paper.

8 1/16 x 8 9/16 inches (205 x 218 mm)

Gift of Janos Scholz.

1986.80

Notes:

Watermark: none.
Formerly attributed to Biagio Pupini (active 1511-1551); Perino del Vaga (1501-1547).

Inscription:

Inscribed at lower right in pen and brown ink, "del Perino (?) (effaced)"; on verso of mount at upper center in pen and brown ink, "L. N. 62".

Provenance:

F. Rochman, New York; from whom purchased in New York in 1954 by János Scholz (no mark; see Lugt S. 2933b).

Associated names:

Pupini, Biagio, active 1511-1551, Formerly attributed to.
Perino, del Vaga, 1500 or 1501-1547, Formerly attributed to.
Rochman, F., former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.

Bibliography:

Selected references: Oakland and Elsewhere 1957, no. 95 (as Biagio Pupini)
Neumeyer, Alfred, and János Scholz. Drawings from Bologna 1520-1800. Oakland : Mills College Art Gallery, 1957, no. 95. (as Biagio Pupini)
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twenty-First Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984-1986. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1989, p. 352.

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