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Italian School
16th cent
Group of Six Apostles from an "Assumption of the Virgin". Verso: Two Columns and Slight Sketch of a Man on his Hands and Knees
Black chalk, red chalk, with opaque lead white, partially oxidized, on blue laid paper; verso: black chalk.
7 1/4 x 5 1/4 inches (184 x 132 mm; maximum dimensions)
Gift of Janos Scholz.
1992.166

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Formerly attributed to Lorenzo Sabatini, Bologna ca. 1530-1576 Rome.

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Inscribed at lower right, in pen and brown ink, "Loren[z]o Sabadino".
Watermark: Anchor in a circle surmounted by six-pointed star, fragment.

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Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna (Lugt 174); Archduke Friedrich of Austria (b. 1856; no mark; see Lugt 1856); purchased in New York in 1947 by Janos Scholz, New York (no mark; see Lugt S. 2933b).
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Sabatini, Lorenzo, ca. 1530-1576, Formerly attributed to.
Habsburg, Frederick, 1856-1936, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.

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