Attributed to Bergognone

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Attributed to Bergognone
active 1481-1522,
St. Augustine Matriculating at the University of Carthage (?)
ca. 1510-1515
Pen and brown ink and wash, with lead white opaque watercolor, on paper prepared with a brown wash; partially incised with stylus and pricked for transfer.
7 1/2 x 9 7/16 inches (191 x 240 mm)
Gift of Janos Scholz.
1979.44
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Watermark: none.

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Inscribed on verso of lining, in pen and brown ink, "c[?] X / Delle[?] fec' Canonie / spallier".

Provenance: 
Purchased in London in 1954 by Janos Scholz, New York (no mark; see Lugt S. 2933b).
Associated names: 

Scholz, János, former owner.

Bibliography: 

Rhoda Eitel-Porter and and John Marciari, Italian Renaissance Drawings at the Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 2019, no. 48.
Selected references: Oakland and elsewhere 1956, no. 55; Ottino della Chiesa 1956, no. 29; Bloomington and elsewhere 1958, no. 25; Detroit 1960, no. 30; Staten Island 1961, no. 6; Cologne 1963-64, no. 89; New Haven 1964, no. 39; Gilbert 1968, 4-5; Courcelle and Courcelle 1969, 90; Washington and New York 1973- 74, no. 63; Scholz 1976, no. 21; Fellows Report 9 1981, 176; Marani 1987, no. 30; Bambach 1988, 229-30; Schulze Altcappenberg 1995, 108; Pavia 1998, 403-4; Bora 2000, 76n17.
Gilbert, Creighton et al. Drawings of the Italian Renaissance from the Scholz Collection. Bloomington : Indiana University Art Center, 1958, no. 25, repr.
Scholz 1963-64, no. 89 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. 46.
Creighton Gilbert, "Two Composition Drawings by Bergognone," Master Drawings, VI, 1968, 3-20, repr. pl. 2 (includes previous bibliography and exhibitions).
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. 63, repr.
Scholz, Janos. Italian Master Drawings, 1350-1800, from the János Scholz Collection. New York : Dover, 1976, no. 21, repr.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Nineteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978-1980. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981, p. 176-177.

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