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Italian School

Virgin and Child with Other Figures

ca. 1560-1570

Pen and brown ink, gray-brown wash, over red chalk, some black chalk, on paper.

7 x 5 3/8 inches (178 x 135 mm)

Gift of János Scholz.

1993.232

Description:

The drawing entered the Morgan’s collection as by a follower of Correggio. In particular the technique of pen and ink over copious red chalk underdrawing is reminiscent of that master, though the resemblance seems merely superficial. The drawing appears to be the work of a later sixteenth-century central Italian draftsman, possibly, as A. E. Popham suggested, a Roman artist in the circle of Taddeo Zuccaro (undated opinion recorded in the curatorial file).

Notes:

Watermark: none.
Formerly attributed to Correggio, called Antonio Allegri, Correggio 1489?-1534; Taddeo Zuccaro (1529-1566).

Provenance:

Moscardo Collection, Verona, which passed to Marquis de Calceolari (according to Scholz records; no mark; see under Lugt S. 2990a-g); possibly Count Lodovico Moscardo (1611-1681), Verona; by descent to Teresa Moscardo Miniscalchi, Verona; Luigi Miniscalchi Erizzo; Count Mario Miniscalchi-Erizzo (1881-1957), until 1905; Mario Uzielli (1888-1973), Liestal, Switzerland; János Scholz (1903-1993), New York (Lugt S. 2933b).

Associated names:

Correggio, 1489?-1534, Formerly attributed to.
Zuccaro, Taddeo, 1529-1566, Formerly attributed to.
Calceolari, Marquis de, former owner.
Moscardo, Lodovico, 1611-1681, former owner.
Miniscalchi, Teresa Moscardo, former owner.
Miniscalchi-Erizzo, Luigi, former owner.
Miniscalchi-Erizzo, Mario, 1881-1957, former owner.
Uzielli, Mario, 1888-1973, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.

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