Attributed to Titian

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Attributed to Titian
approximately 1488-1576
Landscape with St. Theodore Overcoming the Dragon
ca. 1556-1565
Pen and brown ink, over black chalk, on paper.
7 5/8 x 11 5/8 inches (198 x 296 mm)
Gift of Janos Scholz.
1977.46
Notes: 

Watermark: None on drawing. Lining has Arms of Amsterdam.
Engraved by Angolo dal Moro, ca. 1560.

Inscription: 

Inscribed on old mount, at center, beneath the drawing, in pen and brown ink, "Titiano da Cadore"; at lower right, in graphite, probably by Goldstein, "sp[ring] 1923. Kxxx/Axx./Coll. R.C. Jackson. London"; on verso of mount, at upper left, in pen and brown ink, "153"; to the right of this in a different hand, in pen and brown ink, "B No6"; beneath this, in a different hand, in pen and brown ink, "S. 31"; on verso of lining at upper left, in brown ink, "Titiano"; above this in red chalk, "N.o 148"; in pencil center, "17/12"; on verso of mount, lower left, in pencil, "Mr. Koch".

Provenance: 
Peter Sylvester, London (d. 1718; Lugt 2875, 2877), London; Pierre-Gabriel Berthauldt (1748-1819; Lugt 332 on verso), Paris; possibly Richard C. Jackson (1847-1923), London; possibly his sale, Goddard and Smith, London, 23-25 July 1923; Dr. Max A. Goldstein, St. Louis (1870-1941; Lugt 2824); from whose widow purchased by Janos Scholz, New York (1903-1993; no mark; see Lugt S. 2933b).
Associated names: 

Sylvester, Peter, -1718, former owner.
Berthault, Pierre Gabriel, 1737-1831, former owner.
Jackson, Richard C. (Richard Charles), 1851-1923, former owner.
Goldstein, Max A. (Max Aaron), 1870-1941, 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. 68.
Selected references: Tietze and Tietze-Conrat 1944, no. 2013; Pignatti 1957, 386; Venice 1957, no. 17; Bloomington and elsewhere 1958, no. 40; Châtelet 1958, 193; Oakland and San Francisco 1959, no. 74; Hagerstown 1960-61, no. 11; Staten Island 1961, no. 11; Cologne 1963-64, no. 164; New Haven 1964, no. 52; Durham 1965, no. 25; Colorado Springs 1967, no. 4; London and elsewhere 1968, no. 102; Middletown 1969, no. 17; New York 1971, no. 91; De Grummond 1972, 24; Washington and New York 1973-74, no. 93; Montgomery 1976, no. 10; Scholz 1976, no. 32; Venice 1976a, no. 44; Gibbons 1977, 1: under 698; Fellows Report 8 1978, 294; Meder 1978, 376, no. 103; Muraro 1978, 138-39; Pignatti 1979, no. 50; Byam Shaw 1980, 387; Notre Dame 1980, no. 140; Wethey 1987, no. 49; Goldner 1988, under no. 51; Chiari Moretto Wiel 1989, no. 32; Rearick 1991, 20-22; Weimar and elsewhere 1999-2000, under no. 10; Rearick 2001, 148, 223n212; Belluno and Pieve di Cadore 2007-8, no. 92; Ellis and Spaulding 2008.
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, no. 93, repr. (includes previous bibliography and exhibitions)
János Scholz, Italian Master Drawings, 1350-1800, from the János Scholz Collection, New York, 1976, no. 32, repr.
Old Master Drawings from American Collections, exhibition catalogue by Ebria Feinblatt, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 1976, no. 43, repr.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Eighteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1975-1977. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978, p. 294.

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