Innocenzo da Imola

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Innocenzo da Imola

approximately 1485-approximately 1548

Standing Draped Male Figure, Full-face, Turned to the Left

Black and white chalk, on paper.

8 1/2 x 3 3/8 inches (216 x 86 mm)

Gift of János Scholz.

1992.127

Notes:

Watermark: none visible through lining.
Study for the figure of St. John the Evangelist in Imola'a altarpiece of The Marriage of St. Catherine, in S. Giacomo Maggiore, in Bologna, signed and dated 1536.

Inscription:

Inscribed on mount, at lower center, in pen and brown ink, "Rafaelle d'Urbino / in Firenza / Veduto Fra: Bartolomeo"; on verso of mount, in pen and brown ink, on the Sachsen collector's mark, "I and 100"; at lower left, "Kühlen"; at lower right, in Kühlen mark, in pen and brown ink, "42".

Provenance:

Prince Johann Georg zu Sachsen, Dreseden (Lugt S. 1162c; his number S. I, No. 100); unidentified collector's mark K.S. in purple (Kühlen?; his number Nr. 406); Kühlen (purple stamp, his number 42); Galerie Fischer, Lucerne; from whom purchased in 1963 by János Scholz, New York (no mark; see Lugt S. 2933b).

Associated names:

Johann Georg, Prince of Saxony, 1869-1938, former owner.
Kühlen, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.

Bibliography:

Philip Pouncey, "Drawings by Innocenzo da Imola," Master Drawings, VII, no. 3, 1969, p. 290, no. 7, pl. 22, repr.
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. 46, repr.

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