Attributed to Leandro da Ponte Bassano
1557-1622
Half-Length Portrait of a Bearded Man. Verso: Fragmentary Study of Male Head and Torso
7 3/8 x 5 5/8 inches (188 x 141 mm)
Black chalk, with white chalk and black chalk worked with water on blue laid paper altered to gray-blue; verso: red chalk.
1980.44
Gift of Janos Scholz.
Notes
Watermark: none.
Description
The traditional attribution of this drawing was to Paolo Veronese and the drawing may well be by a Veronese follower. although while in the Scholz collection the drawing was published with an attribution to Leandro Bassano.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed on verso, in pen and brown ink, "Paolo Veronese 44 cartella 8a".
Associated names
Piancastelli, Giovanni, 1845-1926, former owner.
Brandegee, Edward, former owner.
Brandegee, Mary, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Brandegee, Edward, former owner.
Brandegee, Mary, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Bibliography
Venice 1957, no. 46; Oakland and San Francisco 1959, no. 8; Hagerstown 1960-61, no. 20; New York 1961(d), no. 12; Washington and elsewhere 1974-75, no. 18; Montgomery 1976, no. 34; Scholz 1976, no. 57.
Muraro, Michelangelo. Venetian Drawings from the Collection Janos Scholz. Venice : N. Pozza, 1957, no. 46.
Venetian Drawings from the Collection of Janos Scholz. Montgomery, Ala. : Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, 1976, no. 34. (as Leandro Bassano)
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Nineteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978-1980. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981, p. 210.
Muraro, Michelangelo. Venetian Drawings from the Collection Janos Scholz. Venice : N. Pozza, 1957, no. 46.
Venetian Drawings from the Collection of Janos Scholz. Montgomery, Ala. : Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, 1976, no. 34. (as Leandro Bassano)
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Nineteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978-1980. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981, p. 210.
Classification
Century Drawings
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