Correggio

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Correggio

1489?-1534

Study for an Apostle, with a Putto and Decorative Frieze

ca. 1520-1522

Red chalk and pen and brown ink, on paper; verso: pen and brown ink.

4 1/8 x 3 1/4 inches (104 x 82 mm)

Gift of Janos Scholz.

1980.55

Notes:

Watermark: none visible through lining.
Preparatory study for an apostle in the fresco cycle in the cupola of S. Giovanni Evangelista in Parma, painted ca. 1520.

Provenance:

Sir Peter Lely (1618-1680; Lugt 2092), London; Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792; Lugt 2364), London; private collection, Bath (according to Janos Scholz records); Seiferheld Galleries, New York; from whom purchased in 1962 by Janos Scholz, New York (1903-1993; no mark; see Lugt S. 2933b).

Associated names:

Lely, Peter, Sir, 1618-1680, former owner.
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723-1792, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.

Bibliography:

Rhoda Eitel-Porter and and John Marciari, Italian Renaissance Drawings at the Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 2019, no. 74.
Selected references: Cologne 1963-64, no. 41; Vitzthum 1963, no. 4; Milwaukee 1964, no. 16; New Haven 1964, no. 35; New York 1965-66, no. 67; Colorado Springs 1967, no. 6; London and elsewhere 1968, no. 25; New York 1971, no. 26; Washington and New York 1973-74, no. 55; Scholz 1976, no. 33A; Notre Dame 1980, no. 142; Fellows Report 19 1981, 173; Turner 1984, 657; Di Giampaolo and Muzzi 1989, no. 19; Fornari Schianchi 1990, 78; New York and Chicago 1994, 3; New York and London 1995, 10; Ekserdjian 1997, 100; Griswold 2000, 267; Di Giampaolo 2001, no. 23; Wind 2002, 61; Rome 2008, no. 29; Rome 2016, 197.
Italienische Meisterzeichnungen vom 14. bis zum 18. Jahrhundert aus amerikanischem Besitz : Die Sammlung Janos Scholz, New York. Hamburg : H. Christians, 1963, no. 41, repr.
Stampfle, Felice, and Jacob Bean. Drawings from New York collections. I: The Italian Renaissance. New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1965, no. 67.
Italian Drawings from the collection of János Scholz, exh. cat., Art Council Gallery, London; Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool; National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1968, no. 25.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Nineteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978-1980. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981, p. 173.
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. 55, repr. (includes previous bibliography and exhibitions).
János Scholz, Italian Master Drawings, 1350-1800, from the János Scholz Collection, New York, 1976, no. 33A, repr.
János Scholz: Musician and Collector, exhibition catalogue by János Scholz, O'Shaughnessy Galleries, Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, 1980, no. 142.

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