Sebastiano Ricci

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Sebastiano Ricci
1659-1734
Christ Before Herod
Pen and brown ink and wash, over black chalk, on laid paper; framing line in brown ink.
5 3/16 x 3 11/16 inches (131 x 94 mm); image area: 4 7/8 x 3 11/16 inches (124 x 94 mm)
Gift of János Scholz.
1987.37
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Inscribed on verso, in blue ink, "47" encircled; along lower left edge, in brown ink (retouched in blue ink), "18".

Provenance: 
The Drawing Shop, New York; from whom purchased in 1961 by Janos Scholz, New York (see Lugt S. 2933b).
Associated names: 

Scholz, János, former owner.

Bibliography: 

Venetian Drawings from the Collection of János Scholz. Montgomery, Ala. : Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, 1976, no. 44, repr.

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