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Paolo Gerolamo Piola
1666-1724
The Toilet of Bathsheba
Pen and brown ink, with white opaque watercolor, over black chalk, on blue paper.
11 7/16 x 16 15/16 inches (290 x 430 mm)
Gift of János Scholz.
1980.71
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Inscribed on verso in pen and brown ink, "No 29.L(?) 10; Piola Girolamo [amo in superscript] Paolo...[illegible]".
Provenance:
Unidentified collector, Genoa (see Lugt S. 3005f); János Scholz, New York (see Lugt S. 2933b).
Associated names:
Scholz, János, former owner.
Bibliography:
Scholz, Janos. Italian Master Drawings, 1350-1800, from the János Scholz Collection. New York : Dover, 1976, no. 123, repr.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Nineteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978-1980. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981, p. 209.
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