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Bernardo Bellotto
1722-1780
Drawbridge Leading to a Town
Pen and brown ink, over graphite, on laid paper.
7 5/8 x 10 7/8 inches (193 x 276 mm)
Gift of Janos Scholz.
1987.45:1
Notes:
Sheets from a dismembered sketchbook; the majority of leaves from the sketchbook are in the Library's collection, Acc. no. 1982.75:72 [1-26].
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Watermark: Letters "B" over "C" and reversed "C".
Provenance:
Michael Mayr, Eisenstadt and Vienna (Lugt S. 1804a); by descent to Marianne Fajt, Eisenstadt (see Lugt S. 1804a); Janos Scholz, New York (no mark; see Lugt S. 2933b).
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Associated names:
Mayr, Michael, 1796-1870, former owner.
Fájt, Marianne, d. ca. 1955, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Bibliography:
Italian Landscape Drawings from the Collection of János Scholz. Durham, N.C. : The Gallery, Department of Art, Duke Univesity, 1965, no. 5, repr.
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