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Seated Prophet with Angel and Two Putti

Orazio Samacchini
1532-1577

Seated Prophet with Angel and Two Putti

1575-1576
10 1/8 x 15 5/8 inches (252 x 396 mm)
Pen and brown ink and wash on laid paper.
1981.20

Gift of Janos Scholz.

Inscriptions/Markings
Watermark: none visible through lining.
Inscribed at lower left in black chalk (illegible).
Associated names
Savoia-Genova, Tommaso di, 1854-1931, former owner.
Abrate, Antonio, 1834-1925, former owner.
Bertarelli, Ernesto, 1873- former owner.
Matthiesen, Francis, 1897-1963, 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. 119.
Selected references: Washington and New York 1973-74, no. 49; Cleveland 1981, no. 94; Ottawa 1982, no. 15; Cremona 1985, under no. 2.15; Fortunati Pietrantonio 1986, 2:643; Stanzani 1990, 74; Paris 1992, under no. 61.
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, 1973-19, no. 49, repr.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twentieth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981-1983. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984, p. 297.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department