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Giacomo Cestaro
1718-approximately 1785
Madonna and Child Adored by Saints. Verso: Drawings of a ground plan and a putto
Pen and brown ink, with gray wash, over black chalk, on paper; squared in black chalk; pen and black ink over black chalk, separate sketches in black chalk.
15 11/16 x 9 11/16 inches (399 x 245 mm)
Gift of Janos Scholz.
1993.389
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Giovanni Piancastelli, Rome (no mark; see Lugt S. 2078a); Edward and Mary Brandegee, Boston (Lugt S. 1860c); acquired in 1946 in New York by Janos Scholz, New York (see Lugt S. 2933b).
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Piancastelli, Giovanni, 1845-1926, former owner.
Brandegee, Edward, former owner.
Brandegee, Mary, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Bibliography:
In the Shadow of Vesuvius : Neapolitan Drawings from the Collection of János Scholz. New York : Finch College Museum of Art, 1969, no. 54, repr.
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