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Copy after Jacopo da Pontormo
1494-1556
Half-length Study of a Youth
Red chalk on paper.
6 3/16 x 5 1/16 inches (157 x 128 mm)
Gift of János Scholz.
1986.100
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Watermark: none.
Version of a preparatory drawing now in the Uffizi, for the Virgin in the Deposition altarpiece in S. Felicitá of 1526.
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Numbered at upper left corner in pen and brown ink, "4".
Provenance:
Giovanni Piancastelli, Rome (no mark; see Lugt S. 2078a); Edward and Mary Brandegee, Boston (no mark; see Lugt S. 1860c); János Scholz, New York (no mark; see Lugt S. 2933b).
Associated names:
Piancastelli, Giovanni, 1845-1926, former owner.
Brandegee, Edward, former owner.
Brandegee, Mary, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Bibliography:
Bernard Berenson, I disegni dei pittori fiorentini, II, Milan, 1961, no. 2256J.
Scholz, Italian Master Drawings, 1976, no. 44, repr.
Twenty-first report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984-1986 / edited by Charles Ryskamp. New York : The Library, 1989, p. 369.
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