Daniele Crespi

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Daniele Crespi
1597 or 1598-1630
St. Bruno and Count Roger of Calabria
Pen and brown ink, with brown wash, with whiteopaque watercolor, over black chalk, on gray-green paper.
9 7/8 x 10 1/2 inches (250 x 266 mm)
Purchased on the Fellows Fund.
1975.34
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Study for a painting in the Certosa of Pavia.

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Inscribed on verso in graphite, "Daniele Crespi"; numbered above in red chalk, "N5(?)".
Watermark: none.

Provenance: 
Giuseppe Vallardi (see Lugt 1223); his sale, Paris, 10-15 December 1860, lot 595; Janos Scholz, New York (see Lugt S. 2933b).
Associated names: 

Vallardi, Giuseppe, 1784-1861, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.

Bibliography: 

Scholz, Janos. Italian Master Drawings, 1350-1800, from the János Scholz Collection. New York : Dover, 1976, no. 106, repr.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Eighteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1975-1977. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978, p. 259-260.

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