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Italian School

16th century

Standing Putto with Dog

Pen and brown ink, black-brown wash, over black chalk, on paper.

3 5/16 x 1 13/16 inches (84 x 46 mm)

Gift of Janos Scholz.

1984.63

Notes:

Watermark: none.
Acquired as Giorgio Vasari.
One of six studies for a vaulted ceiling decoration. Although the specific project has not yet been identified, it has been tentatively related to a commission for the decoration of a loggia that Vasari received on 14 April 1545 from Don Pietro Tolledo, Viceroy of Naples (see Age of Vasari, no. D32).

Inscription:

Inscribed on verso, modern hand, in graphite: "G Vasari/Genoise 1965".

Provenance:

Calceolari, Verona (according to János Scholz records); Armand François Louis de Mestral de Saint-Saphorin (1738-1805), Switzerland and Vienna (according to János Scholz records); Galerie Reichlen, Lausanne (according to János Scholz records); André Marmier, Geneva (according to János Scholz records), from whom purchased in 1965 by János Scholz (1903-1993), New York (see Lugt Suppl. 2933b).

Associated names:

Vasari, Giorgio, 1511-1574, Formerly attributed to.
Moscardo family, former owner.
Calceolari, Marquis de, former owner.
Saint-Saphorin, Armand-François-Louis de Mestral de, 1738-1805, former owner.
Marmier, André, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.

Bibliography:

Selected references: Washington and New York 1973-74, no. 28 (as Vasari); Fellows Report 1989, 386 (as Vasari).
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, no. 28, repr.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twenty-First Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984-1986. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1989, p. 386.

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