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Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione
1609-1664
Studies of Orpheus and the Animals
Pen and brown ink, with black and red chalk, on paper.
8 3/8 x 12 3/16 inches (213 x 309 mm)
Purchased on the Fellows Fund.
1975.4
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Watermark: Trefoil below and initials "PA" on vertical stick. Watermark, beta radiograph. "PA"", trefoil on vertical bar. 141133wm_1975_4_CM_beta.jpeg
Related to painting of c. 1645, formerly in the Costantino Nigro Collection, Genoa.
Inscription:
Inscribed in pen and brown ink at lower left, "castiglion".
Provenance:
Moscardo collection, Verona, which passed to the Marquis de Calceolari (no mark; see Lugt S. 2990a-g); Miniscalchi, Verona; János Scholz, New York (no mark, see Lugt S.2933b).
Associated names:
Moscardo family, former owner.
Calceolari, marquis de, former owner.
Miniscalchi, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Bibliography:
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Eighteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1975-1977. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978, p. 256.
Alfred Moir, ed. Drawings by Seventeenth Century Italian Masters from the Collection of János Scholz. Santa Barbara : Art Galleries, University of California, 1974, p. 27, repr.
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