Attributed to Giovan Francesco Bembo

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Attributed to Giovan Francesco Bembo
active 1480-1543
Portrait of Bearded Man
ca. 1515-1530
Red and black chalk, on paper.
8 x 7 1/16 inches (204 x 179 mm)
Gift of János Scholz.
1980.45
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Watermark: none (just one on lining paper).

Provenance: 
Acquired by Janos Scholz as an exchange from John Hardy, London 1967; János Scholz (1903-1993), New York (see Lugt Suppl. 2933b).
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Hardy, John, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.

Bibliography: 

Washington and New York 1973-74, no. 81.
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. 81, repr. (includes previous bibliography and exhibitions).
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Nineteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978-1980. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981, p. 176.
Scholz, Janos. Italian Master Drawings, 1350-1800, from the János Scholz Collection. New York : Dover, 1976, no. 22, repr.

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