Italian School

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Italian School
14th century
Figures and Decorative Motifs
ca. 1350-1375
Pen and brown ink, with yellow wash, over leadpoint, on parchment
12 1/16 x 30 3/16 inches (307 x 766 mm)
Purchase with the special assistance of the Fellows Fund.
1973.46

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Watermark: none.

Inscription: 

Inscribed on verso with a deed of sale dated 1321.

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Private collection, Los Angeles; purchased in New York in January 1960 by János Scholz (1903-1993), New York (no mark; see Lugt Suppl. 2933b).
Associated names: 

Scholz, János, former owner.

Bibliography: 

Rhoda Eitel-Porter and and John Marciari, Italian Renaissance Drawings at the Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 2019, no. 1, repr.
Selected references: Oakland and Berkeley 1961, no. 86; Baltimore 1961, no. 34; Cologne 1963-64, no. 4; New Haven 1964, no. 1; Los Angeles and Seattle 1967, no. 1; Degenhart and Schmitt 1968-2010, 1: no. 27; London and elsewhere 1968, no. 1; New York 1968-69, no. 16; Evans 1969, 41; Krause 1969, 135; Middletown 1969, no. 1; New York 1971, no. 1; New York 1974, 42; Fellows Report 17 1976, 170; Los Angeles 1976, no. 3; Scholz 1976, no. 1; Brown 1988, no. 686; Perrig 1994, 423-24; Budapest and Luxembourg 2006, 81.
Italienische Meisterzeichnungen vom 14. bis zum 18. Jahrhundert aus amerikanischem Besitz : Die Sammlung Janos Scholz, New York. Hamburg : H. Christians, 1963, no. 1, repr.
Italian Drawings from the Collection of János Scholz : a loan exhibition, April 23-June 7, 1964, Yale University Art Gallery. New Haven : Yale University Art Gallery, 1964, no. 1.
Tuscan and Venetian Drawings of the Quattrocento from the Collection of János Scholz. Los Angeles : Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1967, no. 1, repr.
Italian Drawings from the Collection of János Scholz. London : Art Council Gallery, 1968, no. 1.
Italian Master Drawings from the Collection of János Scholz. Middletown, Conn. : Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University, 1969, no. 1.
One Hundred Italian Drawings from the 14th to the 18th Centuries from the János Scholz Collection. New York : New School Art Center, 1971, no. 1.
Pierpont Morgan Library. Gifts in Honor of the Fiftieth Anniversary, An Exhibition, 3 September-3 November 1974. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1974, p. 42.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Seventeenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1972-1974. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1976, p. 170.
Scholz, Janos. Italian Master Drawings, 1350-1800, from the János Scholz Collection. New York : Dover, 1976, no. 1, repr.

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