After Frederik van Valkenborch

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Mountainous River Landscape with Distant Castle and Town

Pen and brown ink, over graphite, on paper.

6 1/2 x 8 5/16 inches (164 x 211 mm)

Gift of Janos Scholz.

1983.23

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Watermark: countermark with letters C and P with a trefoil above (an Italian mark of the last half of the 16th century, cf. Briquet 728).
Subject taken from Bocaccio, "Decameron", Novella 5:1.

Inscription:

Inscribed at lower left, in an old hand, in brown ink, "di Federico fiamengo Pitor del S[superscript]o duc di Mantova". On verso, in a different old hand, in brown ink, "Federico fiamego pitor d Cmo Duca / di mantova".

Provenance:

Moscardo Collection, Verona, which passed to Marquis de Calceolari (according to Scholz records; no mark; see under Lugt S. 2990a-g); Walter Hugelshofer, Zurich; Janos Scholz (no mark; see Lugt S. 2933b).

Associated names:

Moscardo family, former owner.
Calceolari, Marquis de, former owner.
Hugelshofer, Walter, 1899- former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.

Bibliography:

Stampfle, Felice, with the assistance of Ruth S. Kraemer and Jane Shoaf Turner. Netherlandish Drawings of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries and Flemish Drawings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries in the Pierpont Morgan Library. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1991, p. 65, no. 112.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twentieth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981-1983. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984, p. 311 (copy after Valckenborch?).

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