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Study for the Blessed Pope Celestine in Meditation

Giovanni Paolo Melchiori
1664-1745

Study for the Blessed Pope Celestine in Meditation

9 3/4 x 7 3/8 inches (247 x 187 mm)
Pen and brown ink, over black chalk, on paper.
1992.137

Gift of Janos Scholz.

Notes
Formerly attributed to Ercole Procaccini.
An engraving after Melchiori's design was made by Benedetto Fariat around 1729 (see Simonetta Prosperi Valenti Rodino, "Drawings of the Roman Baroque Painter Giovanni Paolo Melchiori," Master Drawings, vol. 18, no. 4, 1980, 357, fig. 8).
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed at lower left, in pen and brown ink, "Procacini"; numbered on verso at upper left, "4"(?) (with a decoration at right); also numbered on verso at upper center, in pen and gray-brown ink, "53".
Watermark: Anchor in a circle surmounted by a six-pointed star, with letter "F" below.
Associated names
Procaccini, Ercole, 1605-1675 or 80, Formerly attributed to.
Goldstein, Max A. (Max Aaron), 1870-1941, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department