Bartolomeo Passarotti

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Bartolomeo Passarotti
1529-1592
Standing Boy, Turned to the Left, Leaning Against a Banner. Verso: Slight Sketch of a Head
ca. 1570s
Pen and dark brown ink on paper; verso: graphite or black chalk.
10 3/8 x 4 1/2 inches (263 x 115 mm; maximum dimensions)
Gift of János Scholz.
1992.142

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Watermark: none.
Top corners diagonally cropped.

Inscription: 

Inscribed at lower right, in pen and brown ink, "Passerotto-"; on mount, at lower right, in pen and black ink, "690"; on verso, at upper left, in pen and brown ink, "BA(?) / [...] (cancelled)"; beneath this, in graphite, "eo (cancelled)"; below this, in pen and brown ink, "B: / 19"; at center, in graphite, "Bardolomeo / Pass[a]rodo"; at lower right on made up section, in pen and brown ink, "Passarot[...] (cut off by edge of paper) / 4".

Provenance: 
Unidentified collector (mark .N.H. in gold on recto); unidentified collector (Lugt S. 2914a); possibly Nicola Francesco Haym (close to Lugt 1970); Delius Giese; from whom purchased in London in 1947 by János Scholz, New York (no mark; see Lugt S. 2933b).
Associated names: 

Haym, Nicola Francesco, former owner.
Giese, Delius, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.

Bibliography: 

Neumeyer, Alfred, and János Scholz. Drawings from Bologna 1520-1800. Oakland : Mills College Art Gallery, 1957, no. 90.
Italienische Meisterzeichnungen vom 14. bis zum 18. Jahrhundert aus amerikanischem Besitz : Die Sammlung János Scholz, New York. Hamburg : H. Christians, 1963, no. 109.

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