Annibale Carracci

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Annibale Carracci

1560-1609

Nude Male with Hands Raised over Head Holding a Stick; Study of Hands

Black chalk, with white, on blue laid paper.

16 5/8 x 10 11/16 inches (422 x 272 mm)

Gift of Janos Scholz.

1979.46

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Notes:

Watermark: none visible through lining.
Possibly a study for a figure in the fresco cycle in the Palazzo Farnese, Rome.

Inscription:

Inscribed in pen and brown ink, in an old hand, on small label attached to lining, "Anibal Caraccio".

Provenance:

Janos Scholz, New York (no mark; see Lugt S. 2933b).

Associated names:

Scholz, János, former owner.

Bibliography:

Nineteenth report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978-1980 / edited by Charles Ryskamp. New York : The Library, 1981, p. 183.
Scholz, Hamburg-Cologne, 1963, no. 32 (includes previous bibliography and exhibitions).
Italian Drawings to Commemorate the 400th Anniversary of the Death of Michelangelo, exhibitions catalogue by J. Wasserman, Unviersity of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 1964, no. 12.
One Hundred Italian Drawings from the 14th to the 18th Centuries from the Janos Scholz Collection. New York : New School Art Center, 1971, no. 22.
Italian Drawings from the Janos Scholz Collection. Norton, Mass. : Watson Gallery, Wheaton College, 1971, no. 5, repr. pl. I.
Scholz, Janos. Italian Master Drawings, 1350-1800, from the Janos Scholz Collection. New York : Dover, 1976, no. 81, repr.

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