Gian Girolamo Savoldo

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b ca. 1480

Head and Shoulders of a Bearded Man

Black and white chalk, with brown wash, on blue paper; outlines pricked for transfer.

10 1/2 x 7 5/8 inches (267 x 193 mm)

Gift of Benjamin Sonnenberg.

1977.61

Notes:

Watermark: none.
Corners cropped diagonally.

Provenance:

John B. Skippe (1742-1811; see Lugt 1529 a-b); his sale, London, Christie's, 21 November 1958, lot 194, repr.; Benjamin Sonnenberg, New York.

Associated names:

Skippe, John B., 1742-1811, former owner.
Sonnenberg, Benjamin, 1901-1978, former owner.

Bibliography:

Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Eighteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1975-1977. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978, p. 292.

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