Ludovico Pozzoserrato

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approximately 1550-approximately 1604

Head and Torso of a Young Man Seen from the Back

Black and red chalk on paper.

12 3/4 x 7 3/16 inches (323 x 183 mm)

Gift of Janos Scholz.

1973.45:1

Notes:

Watermark: angel within a circle (cf. Briquet 674-75).
This and 1973.45:2 were originally part of the same sheet; they cannot be joined because the segment between them is missing.

Inscription:

Inscribed (signed?) at upper right, with monogram, in red chalk.

Provenance:

Savoia-Aosta (no mark; see Lugt S. 47a); Janos Scholz (acquired in Turin, 1951; no mark; see Lugt S. 2933b).

Associated names:

Savoia-Aôsta, 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. 61, no. 104, repr.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Seventeenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1972-1974. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1976, p. 177-78.

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