Girolamo Muziano

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Girolamo Muziano
1532-1592
Beared Man, Seated on the Ground, Gesturing to the Right
ca. 1578-1584
Red chalk on paper.
12 3/8 x 9 5/16 inches (313 x 236 mm)
Gift of Janos Scholz.
1979.6
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Watermark: none.

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Inscribed at lower right, in pen and brown ink, Mutiano.

Provenance: 
Possibly Giovanni Piancastelli (1844-1926), Rome (according to János Scholz's records); Edward (1857-1933) and Mary (1871-1956) Brandegee, Boston (according to János Scholz's records); János Scholz (1903-1993), New York (see Lugt Suppl. 2933b).
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Piancastelli, Giovanni, 1845-1926, former owner.
Brandegee, Edward, former owner.
Brandegee, Mary, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.

Bibliography: 

Rhoda Eitel-Porter and and John Marciari, Italian Renaissance Drawings at the Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 2019, no. 121.
Selected references: Cologne 1963-64, no. 102; Milwaukee 1964, no. 26; New Haven 1964, no. 42; New York 1965-66, no. 124; Colorado Springs 1967, no. IX; Washington and New York 1973-74, no. 4; Fellows Report 19 1981, 206; Marciari 2000, 451, 511; Tosini 2008, 418; Ottawa 2009, no. 112.
Italienische Meisterzeichnungen vom 14. bis zum 18. Jahrhundert aus amerikanischem Besitz: Die Sammlung Janos Scholz, New York, exh. cat., Kunsthalle, Hamburg, and Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, 1963-64, no. 102, repr. fig. 51.
Italian Drawings. A loan exhibtion in connection with a symposium to commemorate the 400th Anniversary of the Death of Michelangelo, 1564-1964, exh. cat., Department of Art History Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 1964, no. 26, fig. 10.
Konrad Oberhuber and Dean Walker, Sixteenth Century Italian Drawings from the Collection of János Scholz, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., and The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, 1973-1974, p. 4, no. 4, repr.
Michelangelo and his World, with Drawings from the British Museum, The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, 1979, no. 33.
John Marciari, Girolamo Muziano and Art in Rome, ca. 1550-1600, Ph.D. diss., Yale University, 2000 (Ann Arbor, 2002), pp. 451, 511.
David Franklin, ed., From Raphael to the Carracci: The Art of Papal Rome, exh. cat., National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 2009, pp. 350-351, no. 112, repr.

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