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Italian School
17th cent.
Title page to Album of Bolognese drawings from the Albertina
17th century
Pen and brown ink on paper.
18 x 12 1/8 inches (457 x 308 mm)
Gift of Janos Scholz.
1992.173
Notes: 

This is the title page from a portfolio of 384 drawings acquired by the Albertina from the J. C. Wawra Gallery in Vienna in 1908 but subsequently sold when they were declared the property of Archduke Friedrich of Hapsburg after World War I. The album had been dismembered at the Albertina, and it was not kept together when it was sold. Many drawings ended up in Berlin, and another group was sold to a Viennese collector and subsequently made its way to the United States. In the introduction to his 1976 exhibition catalogue, Scholz explains that the album “became available here in New York” about 1940. He acquired a large group of the drawings--among them a notable group of studies by Cavedone--as well as this title page, probably the work of a Bolognese dealer in the early eighteenth century. More than 40 sheets from the album came to the Morgan with Scholz's collection.

Inscription: 

Lettered, "RACCOLTA/ DI VARI STUDI DE' SEGUENTI PITTORI/ MAESTRI BOLOGNESI CIOE/̀ LI CARRACCI,/ E SUOI ECCELLENTI ALLIEVI,/ GIA ̀MAESTRI CIOE/̀ BRIZZI, TIARINI, MASSARI, GARBIERI,/ CAVEDONE, SPADA, BUNONE, LANFRANCO,/ E GUIDO RENI &CC./ COME PURE/ DI SIMONE CANTARINI PESARESE/ FLAMINIO TORRI/ ET ALTRI DEGNI ALLIEVI/ DI DETTO GUIDO".
Watermark: Letters "CAA" ? in circle, surmounted by trefoil.

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Janos Scholz, New York.
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Scholz, János, former owner.

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Italian School
School: 
Italian
Century: 
17th century
Classification: 
Drawing
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Drawings and Prints