Giovanni Battista Marcola
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Giovanni Battista Marcola
ca. 1711-1780
Scene from Ancient History. Verso: Reclining male nude
Pen and black ink, with brown wash, with white opaque watercolor, over black chalk, on light brown paper; verso: black chalk, with gray wash, with white chalk, on paper prepared with a dark blue wash.
11 13/16 x 17 1/8 inches (301 x 435 mm)
Gift of Janos Scholz.
1993.149
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Inscribed on verso, in pen and brown ink, "100 Marcola"; in brown wash, "Gio Batt. Marcola".
Provenance:
Walter Schatzki, New York; from whom purchased in New York in 1962 by Janos Scholz, New York (no mark; see Lugt S. 2933b).
Associated names:
Schatzki, Walter, 1899-1983, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
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