Vincenzo di Biagio Catena

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Vincenzo di Biagio Catena
1470?-1531
Study of Drapery on a Half-Length Figure with Raised Right Arm
ca. 1515-1517
Black chalk and lead white opaque watercolor, on blue laid paper, altered to green gray.
7 x 7 5/16 inches (179 x 186 mm)
Gift of Janos Scholz.
1973.40
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Watermark: none.

Inscription: 

Inscribed on verso, at upper center, in pen and brown ink, "No[o superscript] 2(?)99 / (cancelled inscription) / Aless. Maggiori comprò ̣/ a Bologna dal sa cerdote Pancaldi / il giorno 24 Feb: / del 1796"; in lower center, in graphite, "RGC"; in red watercolor(?), 373; in lower right corner, in graphite, "N[o superscript] 127".

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Presumably a priest by the name of Sacerdote Pancaldi, Bologna (according to Maggiori's inscriptions on verso); Alessandro Maggiori (1764-1834; Lugt 3005b), Faenza and Rome; Adolphe Augustin Rey de Villette (1864-1934; Lugt 2200a), Boulogne-sur-Seine, near Paris; Konstantinoff, Paris; from whom purchased in 1939 by Janos Scholz, New York (1903-1993; Lugt S. 2933b).
Associated names: 

Pancaldi, Sacerdote, former owner.
Maggiori, Alessandro, 1764-1834, former owner.
Rey, A. Augustin (Adolphe Augustin), former owner.
Konstantinoff, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.

Bibliography: 

Rhoda Eitel-Porter and and John Marciari, Italian Renaissance Drawings at the Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 2019, no. 59.
Selected references: Gilbert 1956, 373; Venice 1957, no. 10; Bloomington and elsewhere 1958, no. 12; Oakland and San Francisco 1959, no. 18; Hagerstown 1960-61, no. 8; Newark 1960, no. 13; Staten Island 1961, no. 8; Cologne 1963-64, no. 37; New Haven 1964, no. 34; Bean 1965, 338; New York 1965-66, no. 41; Colorado Springs 1967, no. 1; London and elsewhere 1968, no. 21; New York 1971, no. 24; Washington and New York 1973-74, no. 92; Scholz 1976, no. 24; Rearick 2001, 47; Munich 2008-9, no. 8; Whistler 2016, 107; Marciari 2018a, 129.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Seventeenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1972-1974. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1976, p. 158.
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. 92, repr. (includes previous bibliography and exhibitions).
Scholz, Janos. Italian Master Drawings, 1350-1800, from the János Scholz Collection, New York, 1976, no. 24, repr.
100 Master drawings from the Morgan Library & Museum. München : Hirmer, 2008, no. 8, repr. [Rhoda Eitel-Porter]

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