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Bernardo Bellotto

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Bernardo Bellotto
1722-1780
Forest. Verso: architectural drawing
Pen and brown ink, over graphite, on laid paper; verso: pen and brown ink.
7 3/4 x 9 3/8 inches (196 x 238 mm)
Gift of Janos Scholz.
1987.45:2
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Drawings by the same hand[?] in two albums in the Oenslager collection, Morgan Library: Acc. Nos. 1982.75:72 [1-26] and 1982.75:73 [1-27].

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Watermark: Number "9", placed between chain lines.

Provenance: 
Michael Mayr, Eisenstadt and Vienna (Lugt S. 1804a); by descent to Marianne Fajt, Eisenstadt (see Lugt S. 1804a); Janos Scholz, New York (no mark; see Lugt S. 2933b).
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Mayr, Michael, 1796-1870, former owner.
Fájt, Marianne, d. ca. 1955, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.

Bibliography: 

Muraro, Michelangelo. Venetian Drawings from the Collection János Scholz. Venice : N. Pozza, 1957, no. 82, repr.

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Bellotto, Bernardo
School: 
Italian
Century: 
18th century
Classification: 
Drawing
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Drawings and Prints