Attributed to Crescenzio Onofri

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Attributed to Crescenzio Onofri
ca. 1650-ca. 1712
Landscape with a River
Pen and brown ink and wash, with white opaque watercolor, over black chalk, on blue laid paper.
15 11/16 x 10 1/4 inches (398 x 259 mm)
Gift of János Scholz.
1984.59

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Watermark: none.

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Inscribed on mount below drawing in black chalk, "Claudio di Lorena"; on verso in pen and black ink, "Di Mr. [r superscript] Claudio".

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Dukes of Savoy, Aosta, Turin (Lugt S. 47a); purchased in 1951 in Turin by János Scholz, New York (see Lugt S. 2933b).
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Savôia-Aôsta, Dukes of, former owner.
Scholz, János, donor.

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. 82, repr.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twenty-First Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984-1986. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1989, p. 365.

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