Raphael

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Raphael
1483-1520
Male Figure Representing an Earthquake
1515-1516
Metalpoint, with white opaque watercolor, on gray prepared paper.
4 1/4 inches (108 mm; diameter)
Gift of Janos Scholz.
1977.45
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Watermark: none visible through lining.

Provenance: 
Jonathan Richardson Sr., London (1665-1745; Lugt 2184); Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792; Lugt 2364); Janos Scholz, New York (1903-1993; no mark; see Lugt S. 2933b), New York.
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Richardson, Jonathan, 1665-1745, former owner.
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723-1792, 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. 37.
Selected references: Rogers 1778, 1:46; Fischel and Oberhuber 1913-72, 9:136-37; Bloomington and elsewhere 1958, no. 18; Cologne 1963-64, no. 128; Kauffmann 1964, 123-30; Milwaukee 1964, no. 32; New Haven 1964, no. 36; New York 1965-66, no. 50; Houston 1966, no. 40; Colorado Springs 1967, no. 2; Dussler 1971, 104; Shearman 1972, 104-5; Washington and New York 1973-74, no. 1; Notre Dame 1980, no. 141; Joannides 1983, 224; Knab, Mitsch, and Oberhuber 1983, no. 525; Notre Dame 1983, 72-73; New York 1987, no. 29.
Stampfle, Felice, and Jacob Bean. Drawings from New York collections. I: The Italian Renaissance. New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1965, no. 50, repr.
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, p. 1, no. 1, repr.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Nineteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978-1980. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981, p. 291-292.

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