Giuseppe Passeri

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Giuseppe Passeri
1654-1714
St. Peter Freed from Prison
Pen and black ink, with white opaque watercolor, over red chalk and black chalk, on paper prepared with a red wash.
10 15/19 x 9 inches (278 x 228 mm)
Gift of János Scholz.
1979.53
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Watermark: none visible through lining.

Provenance: 
Dukes of Savoy, Aosta, Turin (no mark; see Lugt S. 47a); János Scholz, New York (no mark; see Lugt S. 2933b).
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Savôia-Aôsta, Dukes of, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.

Bibliography: 

Carlo Maratti and His Contemporaries, exhibition catalogue by Jean K. Westin and Robert H. Westin, Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, 1975, no. 51, repr. 63 (includes full bibliography and exhibitions).
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Nineteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978-1980. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981, p. 208.

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