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Andrea Pozzo
1642-1709
Left half of a "Theatrum Sacrum"
1685
Pen and brown ink, with brown and gray wash, on paper.
16 1/4 x 6 5/8 inches (412 x 168 mm)
Gift of Mrs. Donald M. Oenslager, 1982.
1982.75:509
Notes: 

This drawing is strikingly similar to fig. 71 in Pozzo's "Perspectivo Pictorum et Architectorum," Rome, 1692, representing the Marriage at Cana erected in the Jesuits' church in Rome in 1685.
Negative-Juley.

Provenance: 
Michael Mayr, Eisenstadt and Vienna (no mark; seeLugt S. 1804a); by descent to Marianne Fajt, Eisenstadt (see Lugt S. 1804a); János Scholz, New York (no mark; see Lugt S. 2933b); acquired in 1951 by Donald M. Oenslager, New York.
Associated names: 

Oenslager, Donald, 1902-1975, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Mayr, Michael, 1796-1870, former owner.
Fájt, Marianne, d. ca. 1955, former owner.

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Pozzo, Andrea
School: 
Italian
Century: 
17th century
Classification: 
Drawing
Department: 
Drawings and Prints