Pier Francesco Mola

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Pier Francesco Mola
1612-1666
The Connoisseurs
Pen and brown ink on laid paper, lined overall.
9 3/8 x 7 5/16 inches (239 x 185 mm)
Gift of János Scholz.
1985.90
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Watermark: fragment of a flower (?).

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Numbered at lower right in pen and brown ink, "62".

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Mons. de Bourguignon de Fabregoules (no mark; see Lugt 1015); Charles-Joseph Berthelmi Giraud (no mark; see Lugt 1015); M. Flury-Hérard (no mark; see Lugt 1015); his sale, Paris, 13-15 May 1861; Walter Hugelshofer, Zurich; Hans M. Calmann, London; János Scholz, New York (see Lugt S. 2933b).
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Bourguignon de Fabregoules, former owner.
Giraud, Charles-Joseph Barthelemi, former owner.
Flury-Hérard, former owner.
Hugelshofer, Walter, 1899- former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.

Bibliography: 

Great Master Drawings of Seven Centuries, M. Knoedler & Co., New York, 1959, no. 36, pl. LXXVIII.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twenty-First Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984-1986. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1989, p. 362.

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