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Domenico Maria Canuti
1626-1684
Study of a Dead or Sleeping Man, with a Small Sketch of The Meeting of Christ and St. John
Red chalk, with white chalk, over black chalk, on cream-colored paper prepared with an ochre ground.
12 1/2 x 19 7/8 inches (310 x 505 mm)
Purchased on the Fellows Fund.
1975.2
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Watermark: Letters "MG?" in circle surmounted by trefoil.
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Private collection, Bologna; Cassini, Venice; Janos Scholz, New York (see Lugt S. 2933b).
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Associated names:
Cassini, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Bibliography:
Scholz, Janos. Italian Master Drawings, 1350-1800, from the János Scholz Collection. New York : Dover, 1976, no. 115, repr.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Eighteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1975-1977. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978, p. 256.
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