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Pier Francesco Mola
1612-1666
The Sonnet Vendor
Pen and brown ink, with brown wash, on paper.
8 7/8 x 6 1/2 inches (225 x 165 mm)
Purchase.
1977.7
Notes: 

Watermark: none.

Inscription: 

Inscribed in pen and brown ink on box, "Sonetti".

Provenance: 
Dukes of Savoy, Aosta, Turin (Lugt S. 47a); János Scholz, New York (see Lugt S. 2933b).
Associated names: 

Savôia-Aôsta, Dukes of, former owner.
Scholz, János, 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. 276.
Carlo Maratti and His Contemporaries: Figurative Drawings from the Roman Baroque, exhibition catalogue by Jean K. Westin and Robert H. Westin, Museum of Art, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, 1975, no. 49, repr. (includes full bibliography and exhibitions).

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Mola, Pier Francesco
School: 
Italian
Century: 
17th century
Classification: 
Drawing
Department: 
Drawings and Prints