Attributed to Giovanni Battista Naldini

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Attributed to Giovanni Battista Naldini
1537-1591
View of the Colosseum in Rome. Verso: Two Figures Seated on Rocks in Conversation and Sketch of Arcade in Background
ca. 1560
Pen and brown ink on paper; framing lines in pen and brown ink; verso: pen and brown ink.
6 3/8 x 8 7/8 inches (163 x 226 mm)
Gift of Janos Scholz.
1988.111

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Watermark: none.
Acquired as Italian school, Roman.

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Purchased in New York in 1955 by János Scholz (1903-1993), New York (see Lugt Suppl. 2933b).
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Scholz, János, former owner.

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Selected references: Bloomington and Elsewhere 1958, no. 37(as unknown artist in Rome, ca. 1525); Detroit 1960, no. 48; Philadelphia and Detroit 1960-61, no. 155 (as anonymous Italian School); New York 1961, no. 56 (as Roman master, ca. 1500); Houston 1966, no. 7 (as anonymous artist, Roman school, ca. 1500); Hartford 1969-70, no. 1 (as anonymous artist, ca. 1500); Byam Shaw 1976, 1: 149, under no. 519; Providence 1978, 20, 29-30, no. 7 (as anonymous, probably Italian early 16th century); Thiem 2002, 45.

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