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Italian School
17th century
Young Saint (St. Roch?) Distributing Alms to the Poor
Pen and brown and black ink, with red-brown watercolor, with opaque white, on blue paper, altered to gray.
11 3/16 x 15 1/16 inches (284 x 382 mm)
Gift of Janos Scholz.
1992.78
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Watermark: unidentified.
Formerly attributed to Giacomo Cavedone.
Inscription:
Inscribed at lower right in pen and brown ink, "Giacomo Cavedoni"; indecipherable inscription at upper center.
Provenance:
Sir Joshua Reynolds (fragment of collector's mark; see Lugt 2364); Richard Ford (no mark; see Lugt 2208 & 2209); Lady Wantage, Northampton (no mark; see under Lugt 2490); her sale, Northampton, 31 Jan-3 Feb, 1921; Thomas Bewick or Thomas Bladys (Lugt S. 416a); Hans M. Calmann, London; from whom acquired in 1949 or 1950 by Janos Scholz, New York (see Lugt S. 2933b).
Associated names:
Cavedone, Giacomo, 1577-1660, Formerly attributed to.
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723-1792, former owner.
Ford, Richard, 1796-1858, former owner.
Wantage, Lady, former owner.
Bewick, Thomas, 1753-1828, former owner.
Bladys, Thomas, former owner
Bibliography:
Italian Drawings from the Janos Scholz Collection. Norton, Mass. : Watson Gallery, Wheaton College, 1971, no. 6, repr.
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