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Attributed to Francesco Antonio Meloni
1676-1713
Studies of Hands and Drapery
Red and white chalk, on paper.
11 1/16 x 7 11/16 inches (281 x 194 mm)
Gift of János Scholz.
1992.138
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Watermark: none.
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Inscribed on verso, in pen and brown ink, "Fosato(?) Melone in S. Domenigo il qual a mia... / [illegible] in questa [illegible] iogomo milono(?)[illegible]".
Provenance:
J.C. Wawra, Vienna; Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna (Archduke Friedrich of Hapsburg; see Lugt 960); private collection, Vienna; from whom acquired by János Scholz, New York (no mark; see Lugt S. 2933b).
Associated names:
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. 71, repr.
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