Battista Franco

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Battista Franco

1510?-1561

Seated Male Looking Upward With Lion

ca. 1545-1550

Pen and brown ink on paper.

6 x 4 1/8 inches (151 x 105 mm)

Gift of Janos Scholz.

1982.40

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Description:

The inchoate form at far right seems to depict a lion, the attribute associated with St. Jerome. However, the figure’s youth and short beard suggest that the present study might illustrate Daniel in the Lion’s Den.

Notes:

Watermark: none visible through lining.

Inscription:

Inscribed on Richardson mount at lower center, "Battista Franco"; on verso of mount at upper center in pen and brown ink with Richardson's pressmark, "AA 50. / B"; at center in pen and brown ink, "1 S. 2. 83"; at lower center in pen and brown ink, "B[arry].D[elany]"; at lower left in pencil, "S.W.H.L. 1902".

Provenance:

Jonathan Richardson Sr. (Lugt 2183); Joseph Gulston (1744(?)-1786), Ealing Grove, London (formerly pseudo-Crozat; Lugt 474); Comte de Caylus, Paris (no mark; see Lugt 2919); Dr. Barry Delany; Dr. Edward Riggall; his sale, London, Sotheby's, 6-8 June 1901, probably no. 447, one of seven, (sold to C. Lindsay for £1.11.0); S.W.H.L.; Walter Hugelshofer, Zurich; by whom presented in Zurich in 1948 to Janos Scholz, New York (no mark; see Lugt S. 2933b)

Associated names:

Richardson, Jonathan, 1665-1745, former owner.
Gulston, Joseph, former owner.
Caylus, Anne Claude Philippe, comte de, 1692-1765, former owner.
Delaney, Barry, former owner.
Riggall, Edward, former owner.
Hugelshofer, Walter, 1899- former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.

Bibliography:

Selected references: Fellows Report 1984, 259.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twentieth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981-1983. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984, p. 259.

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