Italian School
15th century
Grotesque Designs for a Pilaster Ornament. Verso: Underview of a Cornice and Studies of Pilasters
ca. 1500
11 1/8 x 8 1/8 inches (281 x 207 mm)
Pen and brown ink, over black chalk, on two pieces of paper joined vertically at center; verso: pen and brown ink, over black chalk.
1981.85
Gift of Janos Scholz.
Notes
Similar to decoration in the Oretari chapel in the Eremitani, Padua.
Formerly attributed to Andrea Mantegna.
Formerly attributed to Andrea Mantegna.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed at upper right, in pen and brown ink, "14".
Watermark: Fragment, head of an ox [?].
Watermark: Fragment, head of an ox [?].
Associated names
Aspertini, Amico, 1474-1552, Circle of, Possible attribution.
Mantegna, Andrea, 1431-1506, Formerly attributed to.
Savôia-Aôsta, Dukes of, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Mantegna, Andrea, 1431-1506, Formerly attributed to.
Savôia-Aôsta, Dukes of, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Bibliography
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twentieth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981-1983. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984, p. 274-275.
Ornaments and Architecture: Renaissance Drawings, Prints and Books, Brown University, Providence, 1980, no. 56, repr. pl. II (includes previous bibliography and exhibitions).
Ornaments and Architecture: Renaissance Drawings, Prints and Books, Brown University, Providence, 1980, no. 56, repr. pl. II (includes previous bibliography and exhibitions).
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