Bachiacca

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Bachiacca
1494-1557
Standing Young Man, Turned to the Left, Holding a Staff. Verso: Fragment of a Reclining Man
ca. 1514-1518
Red chalk on paper, with upper corners cut to an arch; verso: black chalk.
6 3/4 x 3 7/16 inches (171 x 88 mm; maximum dimensions)
Gift of Janos Scholz.
1986.81

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Watermark: Three hills surmounted by a cross (similar to Briquet 11725: Florence 1423-24).

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Sir Peter Lely (1618-1680), London (Lugt 2092); Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792), London (Lugt 2364); Walter Schatzki (1899-1983), New York, from whom purchased in 1968 by Janos Scholz (1903-1993), New York (see Lugt Suppl. 2933b).
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Lely, Peter, Sir, 1618-1680, former owner.
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723-1792, former owner.
Shatzki, Walter, 1899-1983, former owner.
Scholz, János, donor.

Bibliography: 

Rhoda Eitel-Porter and and John Marciari, Italian Renaissance Drawings at the Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 2019, no. 32.
Selected references: Washington and New York 1973- 74, no. 24; Colbert 1978, 191-92; Fellows Report 21 1989, 384; La France 2002, no. 129; La France 2008, no. 101.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twenty-First Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984-1986. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1989, p. 384.

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