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Domenico Beccafumi
1486-1551
Gaius Mucius Scaevola Holding his Hand in Fire. Verso: Two Overlapping Studies of a Standing Man and Two Sketches of an Arcaded Building
ca. 1530-1540
Pen and brown ink, over black chalk, on paper; cut to an octagon; fragment of framing lines at left and at upper right; verso: black chalk and pen and brown ink.
11 1/16 x 7 5/8 inches (281 x 193 mm)
Purchased as the gift of the Fellows.
1964.14
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The sheet has been trimmed to an octagonal.
Inscription:
Inscribed at upper center, in pen and brown ink, "31".
Watermark: Tip of a crown, extremely fragmentary.
Provenance:
Dr. and Mrs. Victor Bloch; sale, London, Sotheby's, 12 November 1964, no. 45.
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Associated names:
Bloch, Victor, former owner.
Bloch, Victor, Mrs., former owner.
Bibliography:
Selected references: New York 1965-66, 48, under no. 64; Providence 1973, 18, under no. 14; Gordley 1988, 163-64, 188-91, 203, 395, no. 86; De Marchi, in Siena 1990, 464-65, no. 131; Tenducci, in Torriti 1998, no. D92; Bolzoni, in New York 2019, 307-09, under no. 92.
Pierpont Morgan Library. Review of Acquisitions, 1949-1968. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1969, p. 130.
Adams, Frederick B., Jr. Fourteenth Annual Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1965 & 1966. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1967, p. 101-102.
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