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Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Oberto Spinola before Barbarossa (Right Side)

Ottavio Semino
1527?-1604

Oberto Spinola before Barbarossa (Right Side)

9 5/8 x 5 3/4 inches (246 x 145 mm)
Pen and brown ink and wash, over black chalk, on paper; framing lines at left and lower edges.
1993.289

Gift of Janos Scholz.

Notes
Watermark: none.
Study for central panel of ceiling fresco in the Gran Salone of Palazzo Giambattista Spinola, painted by Andrea and his brother Ottavio Semino ca. 1565.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed at lower left, in pen and brown ink, "Ottavio Semino"; on verso, in black chalk, "Antonio ga[..]".
Associated names
Semino, Andrea, 1526-1594, Formerly attributed to.
Vallardi, Giuseppe, 1784-1861, former owner.
Weitzner, Julius, -1986, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Bibliography
Stampfle, Felice, and Jacob Bean. Drawings from New York collections. I: The Italian Renaissance. New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1965, no. 1.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department