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Paolo Farinati
1524-1606
Project for a Wall Decoration Surrounding a Fire Place
Pen and brown ink and wash, over black chalk, on paper.
sheet: 9 3/4 x 4 inches (24.8 x 10.2 mm); each drawing: 1) 4 x 2 1/8 inches (101 x 54 mm); 2) 3 7/8 x 5 3/8 inches (97 x 138 mm); 3) 3 7/8 x 2 inches (100 x 51 mm); 4) 1 1/8 x 1 5/8 inches (29 x 41 mm)
Gift of Janos Scholz.
1993.118
Notes:
The drawing is probably an early project for the large rectangular room called the Sala dei Dee in the Villa Nichesola in Ponton San Abrogio, near Verona. A drawing in the Miniscalchi-Erizzo collection, inv. 123, is probably for the same project.
Inscription:
Inscribed at lower left of "Statue of Apollo? with Lyre between Ionian Columns" in pen and brown ink, "Paulo farinato".
Inscribed at lower left of "Statue of Abundance (or Ceres) with Cornucopia, between Ionian Columns", in pen and brown ink, "Paulo farinato".
Watermark: Shield with doubled, crossed lines (cross) inside, fragment.
Provenance:
Moscardo collection, Verona, which passed to the Marquis de Calceolari (no mark; see Lugt S. 2990a-g); Janos Scholz, New York (no mark; see Lugt S. 2933b).
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Associated names:
Moscardo family, former owner.
Calceolari, Marquis de, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
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