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Paolo Farinati
1524-1606
Signs of the Zodiac
Pen and brown ink on two sheets of paper joined horizontally.
8 3/4 x 9 1/8 inches (223 x 232 mm)
Gift of Janos Scholz.
1985.83:1
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Watermark: none.
Inscription:
Inscribed at lower right, in pen and brown ink, "Farinato".
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)
Associated names:
Moscardo family, former owner.
Calceolari, marquis de, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Bibliography:
Muraro, Michelangelo. Venetian Drawings from the Collection Janos Scholz. Venice : N. Pozza, 1957, no. 29.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twenty-First Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984-1986. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1989, p. 337.
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