Circle of Giulio Campi

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Circle of Giulio Campi
approximately 1507-1573
Angel Appearing to Saint Roch, Seated in a Landscape. Verso: Faint Study of a Man Facing Left and Looking Upward and Further Figures Kneeling in Foreground
Pen and brown ink, on light brown paper; framing lines in pen and brown ink; verso: black chalk.
14 1/4 x 10 3/4 inches (362 x 274 mm)
Gift of János Scholz.
1980.51

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Inscribed on verso near upper edge in pen and brown ink, "da M A Mbovitia(?) da lana (cancelled)"; at upper center in pen and brown ink, "Luino Vecchio"; in graphite, by János Scholz, "2203; Aurelio Luini; St. Rochus".

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Jules Dupan, Geneva (Lugt 1440); Comte Gelozzi or Gelosi, Turin (Lugt 513); unidentified French collector's mark (Lugt 1729); Johann Georg Prince of Saxony (no mark; see Lugt 1466); acquired in exchange for a drawing, attributed to Rubens; received as a gift in 1948 from Julius H. Weitzner (1896-1986), New York and London, Zurich in 1951 by János Scholz, New York (no mark; see Lugt S. 2933b).
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Dupan, Jules, former owner.
Gelozzi, Count, former owner.
Johann Georg, Prince of Saxony, 1869-1938, former owner.
Weitzner, Julius, -1986, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.

Bibliography: 

Oakland and elsewhere 1956, no. 56; Detroit 1960, no. 42; Hagerstown 1960, no. 25; Staten Island 1961, no. 26; Hamburg and Cologne 1963-64, no. 26; New Haven 1964, no. 31; London 1968, no. 16; Hartford 1969-70, no. 6; New York 1971, no. 18; Norton 1971, no. 3; Washington and New York 1973-74, no. 82; Scholz 1976, no. 51.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Nineteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978-1980. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981, p. 182.
Italienische Meisterzeichnungen vom 14. bis zum 18. Jahrhundert aus amerikanischem Besitz : Die Sammlung János Scholz, New York. Hamburg : H. Christians, 1963
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. 82, repr. (includes previous bibliography and exhibitions).
Venetian Drawings from the Collection of János Scholz. Montgomery, Ala. : Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, 1976, no. 51, repr.

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