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Attributed to Parmigianino
1503-1540
Male Torso Turned to the Right with Loin Cloth. Verso: Adoration of the Magi
ca. 1524-1526
Pen and dark brown ink, over red and black chalk, on paper: verso; pen and black ink, and wash, over black chalk.
9 5/8 x 5 3/8 inches (243 x 138 mm)
Gift of Janos Scholz.
1989.67
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Watermark: none.
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Inscribed on verso, at lower left, in pen and brown ink, "Polidoro".
Provenance:
Moscardo collection, Verona, which passed to the Marquis de Calceolari (no mark; see Lugt S. 2990a-g); possibly Giovanni Piancastelli (1845-1926; no mark; see Lugt S. 2078a), Rome; Edward (1857-1933) and Mary Brandegee (1871-1956), Boston (no mark; see Lugt 1860c); János Scholz (1903-1993), New York (no mark; see Lugt 2933b).
Associated names:
Polidoro, da Lanciano, -1565, Formerly attributed to.
Moscardo family, former owner.
Calceolari, marquis de, former owner.
Piancastelli, Giovanni, 1845-1926, former owner.
Brandegee, Edward, former owner.
Brandegee, Mary, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Bibliography:
Selected references: Notre Dame 1964, no. 30; Notre Dame 1967, no. 21; Washington and New York 1973-74, 71, no. 59; Gnann 2007, 1: 387-88, no. 242.
Oberhuber, Konrad, and Dean Walker. Sixteenth Century Italian Drawings From the Collection of János Scholz. Washington, D.C. : National Gallery of Art ; New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1973, no. 59, repr.
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