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Italian School

16th century

Adoration of the Shepherds (or Kings?)

ca. 1555-1575

Pen and brown ink and wash, with white opaque watercolor, over black chalk, on rose washed paper.

6 7/8 x 4 1/2 inches (174 x 114 mm)

Gift of Janos Scholz.

1993.112

Notes:

Watermark: none.
Acquired as Angelo del Moro.
Formerly attributed to Battista dell'Angolo del Moro (ca. 1515-ca. 1573); Giulio Campi (ca. 1508-1573); Carlo Urbino (ca. 1510/20-after 1585); Claudio Ridolfi (1570-1644).

Inscription:

Inscribed at lower right, in pen and brown ink, "210".

Provenance:

Moscardo-Calceolari, Verona; possibly Count Lodovico Moscardo (1611-1681), Verona; by descent to Teresa Moscardo Miniscalchi, Verona; Luigi Miniscalchi Erizzo; Count Mario Miniscalchi-Erizzo (1881-1957); Luigi Grassi (1858-1937), Florence (L. 1171b); Delius Giese, New York, from whom purchased in 1948 by János Scholz (1903-1993), New York (see Lugt Suppl. 2933b).

Associated names:

Angolo, Battista dell', approximately 1514-approximately 1573, Formerly attributed to.
Campi, Giulio, approximately 1507-1573, Formerly attributed to.
Urbino, Carlo, active 16th century, Formerly attributed to.
Ridolfi, Claudio, 1570-1644, Formerly attributed to.
Calceolari, Marquis de, former owner.
Moscardo, Lodovico, 1611-1681, former owner.
Miniscalchi, Teresa Moscardo, former owner.
Miniscalchi-Erizzo, Luigi, former owner.
Miniscalchi-Erizzo, Mario, 1881-1957, former owner.
Grassi, Luigi, 1913- former owner.
Giese, Delius, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.

Bibliography:

Selected references: Notre Dame 1964; Notre Dame 1967, no. 33.
The Life of Christ : Drawings from the János Scholz Collection : Italian Drawings from the 16th through the 18th Century. Notre Dame : University of Notre Dame Art Gallery, 1964.
The Life of the Virgin Mary : Drawings from the János Scholz Collection. Notre Dame : Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, 1967, no. 33.

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