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Attributed to Francesco Melzi
1491 or 1493-approximately 1570
Head of an Old Man Facing Right
Red chalk, stumped, on paper; verso: illegible sketch in red chalk.
7 1/8 x 4 1/8 inches (181 x 105 mm)
Gift of Janos Scholz.
1985.89
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Inscribed on verso, in pen and brown ink, "Caccaphiae(?) figino Mlo [o superscript]"; in graphite, "Scuola Leonardesca / 15".
Watermark: Unidentified fragment.
Provenance:
Dukes of Savoy, Aosta, Turin (Lugt S. 47a); purchased in Turin in 1951 by Janos Scholz, New York (no mark; see Lugt S. 2933b).
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Associated names:
Savoy, Aosta, Turin, Dukes of, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Bibliography:
Drawings from Lombardy and Adjacent Areas, 1480-1620. Oakland : Mills College Art Gallery, 1956, no. 35.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twenty-First Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984-1986. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1989, p. 360.
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