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Italian School
16th century
Study of a Hand with Thumb and Index Finger Touching, Holding a Piece of Straw(?) or Thread(?)
Red chalk, with white chalk, on brown washed laid paper.
5 1/4 x 6 1/16 inches (134 x 154 mm)
Gift of Janos Scholz.
1992.157
Notes: 

Watermark: none.

Provenance: 
J.C. Wawra Gallery, Vienna; Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna (no mark; see Lugt 174); Archduke Friedrich of Hapsburg (no mark; see Lugt 960); Janos Scholz, New York (no mark; see Lugt S. 2933b).
Associated names: 

Reni, Guido, 1575-1642, Formerly attributed to.
Habsburg, Frederick, 1856-1936, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.

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Italian School
School: 
Italian
Century: 
16th century
Classification: 
Drawing
Department: 
Drawings and Prints