Circle of? Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi

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Circle of? Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi
1606-1680
Landscape with a Reclining Man
Pen and brown ink, over black chalk, on blue laid paper ; lined to decorative mount.
2 15/16 x 7 15/16 inches (74 x 202 mm)
Bequest of Mrs. John Colgate Jessup.
1988.33
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Watermark: none visible through lining.
Formerly attributed to Claude Lorrain, 1600-1682, and Master of the Blue Landscape.

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Possibly Ivan Iv. Betzkoy (Lugt S 2878a; the fragment of a collector's mark at lower center, however, is difficult to read and may also be the mark of an unidentified collector, see Lugt 2883a); Savile Gallery, London; Mrs. John Colgate Jessup, New York.
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Lorrain, Claude, 1600-1682, Formerly attributed to.
Master of the Blue Landscape, Formerly attributed to.
Betzkoy, Ivan, 1704-1795, former owner.
Jessup, John Colgate, Mrs., former owner.

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