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Virgin and Child and Standing Infant (St. John the Baptist?). Verso: Two Standing Draped Male Figures

Attributed to Fra Bartolomeo
1472-1517

Virgin and Child and Standing Infant (St. John the Baptist?). Verso: Two Standing Draped Male Figures

8 3/16 x 9 7/8 inches (209 x 247 mm)
Black chalk on paper; verso: black chalk, pen trials in brown ink.
1986.89

Gift of Janos Scholz.

Inscriptions/Markings

Watermark: Animal (boar?) within a shield, fragment. (cf. Briquet IV, 13588. Nates (in Loire), 1490).

Associated names

Moscardo family, former owner.
Calceolari, Marquis de, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.

Bibliography

Oakland and elsewhere 1961, no. 33; Hamburg and Cologne 1963-64, no. 59; Milwaukee 1964, no. 4; Los Angeles and elsewhere 1967-68, no. 14.
Drawings from Tuscany and Umbria, 1350-1700. Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, University of California Art Gallery, Berkeley. Berkeley : Gillick, 1961, no. 13.
Italienische Meisterzeichnungen vom 14. bis zum 18. Jahrhundert aus amerikanischem Besitz : Die Sammlung János Scholz, New York. Hamburg : H. Christians, 1963, no. 59.
Tuscan and Venetian Drawings of the Quattrocento from the Collection of János Scholz. Los Angeles : Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1967, no. 14.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twenty-First Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984-1986. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1989, p. 370.

Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department