Leonello Spada

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Leonello Spada
1576-1622
Design for a Stoup with Moses Striking the Rock
Pen and brown-black ink, brown wash, over black chalk on laid paper.
11 5/16 x 7 1/2 inches (289 x 191 mm)
Gift of Janos Scholz.
1992.169
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Inscribed below figural scene, in pen and brown ink, "di Leonelo Spada".
Watermark: Bird on three mounts in circle.

Provenance: 
Dukes of Savoy, Aosta, Turin (no mark; see Lugt S. 47a); Janos Scholz, New York (see Lugt S. 2933b).
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Savôia-Aôsta, Dukes of, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.

Bibliography: 

Neumeyer, Alfred, and János Scholz. Drawings from Bologna 1520-1800. Oakland : Mills College Art Gallery, 1957, no. 105.

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