Giovanni Andrea de' Ferrari
1598-1669
Jacob Promising Laban Seven Years of Service (Genesis 29:18)
5 3/16 x 10 1/4 in. (132 x 260 mm)
Black and red chalk, with gray wash, on paper.
1981.102
Gift of Janos Scholz
Inscriptions/Markings
Numbered at upper left of old mount, in pen and brown ink, "2"; below design on mount, in black chalk, "46"; on mount on verso, in pen and brown ink, "frs. 3"; in graphite, "Gio: And Deferrari rappresente Giaccobbe che promette service alrei 7. anni a Labano- p ottenre JO(?) [crossed out] 5. Aple 1880".
Associated names
Goldstein, Max A. (Max Aaron), 1870-1941, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Bibliography
Scholz, Janos. Italian Master Drawings, 1350-1800, from the Janos Scholz Collection. New York : Dover, 1976, no. 109, repr.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twentieth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981-1983. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984, p. 256-257.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twentieth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981-1983. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984, p. 256-257.
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Century Drawings
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