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Giuseppe Nicola Nasini
1657-1736
A Nymph with Putti and Satyrs. Verso: Sketch of a satyr's head
Pen and brown ink, with white opaque watercolor, over black chalk, on gray paper; verso: pen and brown ink, with black chalk.
15 7/8 x 9 7/8 inches (400 x 248 mm)
Purchased as the gift of John S. Thacher.
1980.3
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Watermark: none.
Inscription:
Inscribed in a later hand, at lower right, in pen and brown ink, "Conca"; on verso, in same hand, "Conca de Lineavit Roma".
Provenance:
Dr. C.R. Rudolf, London (no mark; see Lugt S. 2811b); his sale, London, Sotheby's, 4 July 1977, lot 137; P. & D. Colnaghi and Co., London.
Associated names:
Rudolf, C. R. (C. Robert), former owner.
Thacher, John S., donor.
Bibliography:
Old Master Drawings from the Collection of Mr. C.R. Rudolf, exhibition catalogue by Philip Pouncey at al., Arts Council Gallery, London, 1962, no. 16 (as attributed to Sebastiano Conca).
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Nineteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978-1980. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981, p. 206.
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