Giuseppe Porta

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Giuseppe Porta

approximately 1520-approximately 1576

Bellerophon Killing the Chimera

ca. 1542-1548

Pen and brown ink and wash, with white opaque watercolor, over black chalk, on blue laid paper faded to gray-brown; squared in red and black chalk.

10 7/8 x 9 1/8 inches (275 x 232 mm)

Gift of Janos Scholz.

1973.42

Notes:

A copy of this drawing was sold at Koller Auktionen, 31 March 2023, lot 3403.

Inscription:

Inscribed on a fragment of the old mount (now in departmental file), in graphite, by Janos Scholz, "Bellerophon killing the Chimera/ Exhibits 1959/ 1964: see Arte Veneta, publ. / See Ridolfi who mentions this subject / which is now destroyed / exh. Venice, 1957, no. 24"; on verso of detached lining, in graphite, "B / Early Italian / hinshunch"; inscribed in blue ballpoint pen, "Giuseppe Porta (Salviati) / B1518 D Venice 1570".
Watermark: Anchor inside circle, surmounted by six-pointed star, centered on chain lines.

Provenance:

August Grahl, Dresden (1791-1868; Lugt 1199); Sotheby's, London, 7-10 December 1920, lot 191 (as Battista del Moro); Julius Weitzner (1896-1986), New York and London; from whom purchased in 1957 by Janos Scholz, New York (1903-1993; no mark; see Lugt S. 2933b).

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Associated names:

Grahl, August, 1791-1868, former owner.
Weitzner, Julius, -1986, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.

Bibliography:

Rhoda Eitel-Porter and and John Marciari, Italian Renaissance Drawings at the Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 2019, no. 66.
Selected references: Venice 1957, no. 24; Molino 1963, 166-67; London and elsewhere 1968, no. 75; Washington and New York 1973-74, no. 101; Fellows Report 7 1976, 180; Scholz 1976, no. 73; McTavish 1981, no. 17; New York and Washington 2018-19, 45n54.
Oberhuber, Konrad, and Dean Walker. Sixteenth Century Italian Drawings From the Collection of János Scholz. Washington, D.C. : National Gallery of Art ; New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1973, no. 101, repr. (includes previous bibliography and exhibitions).
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Seventeenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1972-1974. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1976, p. 180.
Scholz, Janos. Italian Master Drawings, 1350-1800, from the János Scholz Collection. New York : Dover, 1976. no. 73, repr.

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