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Paolo Farinati

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Paolo Farinati
1524-1606
Figures Standing around a Grave. Verso: Geometric Design
1565
Pen and brown ink on paper; verso: pen and brown ink.
4 3/4 x 7 1/8 inches (120 x 180 mm; maximum dimensions)
Gift of Janos Scholz.
1993.115
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Watermark: none.

Inscription: 

Inscribed at lower right, in pen and brown ink, "Paulo farinato"; on verso, in pen and brown ink, "azurati; [...]spesi; preda bato"; mathematical computations.

Provenance: 
Moscardo collection, Verona, which passed to the Marquis de Calceolari (no mark; see Lugt S. 2990a-g); at least since 1958, Janos Scholz, New York (no mark; see Lugt S. 2933b).
Associated names: 

Moscardo family, former owner.
Calceolari, marquis de, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.

Bibliography: 

The Life of Christ : Drawings from the Janos Scholz Collection : Italian Drawings from the 16th through the 18th Century. Notre Dame : University of Notre Dame Art Gallery, 1964, no. 21.

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Farinati, Paolo
School: 
Italian
Century: 
16th century
Classification: 
Drawing
Department: 
Drawings and Prints