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Carlo Urbino
active 16th century
Draped Figure Seen from Below
ca. 1576
Black and white chalk, on blue paper; squared in red chalk.
15 1/2 x 9 5/8 inches (393 x 244 mm)
Purchased on the Lois and Walter C. Baker Fund.
1999.12
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Watermark: Hand with open thumb, surmounted by a flower (similar to Briquet 10722: Rome 1543).
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Sotheby's, London, 3 July 1995, lot 123 (as Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo); Christie's, London, 6 July 1999, lot 30.
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Bibliography:
Rhoda Eitel-Porter and and John Marciari, Italian Renaissance Drawings at the Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 2019, no. 54.
Selected references: Di Giampaolo and Turner 1978, 76 (as Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo); Bora 1979, 102-4; Bora 1980a, 317, no. 59; Cirillo 2005, 166, no. 224.
Giulio Bora, "Un ciclo di affreschi, due artisti e una bottega a S. Maria di Campagna a Pallanza," Arte Lombarda 52, 1979, p. 104, fig. 32.
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