Download image:
Giovan Gioseffo dal Sole
1654-1719
The Bird Catchers
Pen and brown ink, with brown wash, over red chalk, on paper.
8 x 10 5/8 inches (204 x 270 mm)
Gift of Janos Scholz.
1981.107
Download verso image:
Notes:
Watermark: none.
Inscription:
Inscribed on verso at upper left, in pen and dark brown ink, "Gio: Giosoffo dal Sole"; at upper right, "No. 84"; on back of old mount now removed, at left, "Giov- Giosoffo dal Sole, / nato in Bologna l'anno / 1654; nel 1719 -", and "No. 220".
Provenance:
Richard Philipps, 1st Lord Milford (Lugt S. 2687); by descent to Sir John Philipps; sold in 1943 or 1946 to Hans M. Calmann, London; from whom purchased in 1950 by Janos Scholz, New York (see Lugt S. 2933b).
Associated names:
Philipps, Richard, Sir, 1744-1823, former owner.
Philipps, John, Sir, former owner.
Calmann, Hans M., former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Bibliography:
Scholz, Janos. Italian Master Drawings, 1350-1800, from the János Scholz Collection. New York : Dover, 1976, no. 126, repr.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twentieth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981-1983. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984, p. 300-301.
Catalog link:
Artist page:
School:
Century:
Classification:
Department: