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Italian School

16th century

Study of a Tree. Verso: Studies for the Virgin of the Rosary

Pen and brown ink, over black chalk, on laid paper; miscellaneous indications in black chalk; verso: black chalk.

7 7/8 x 6 3/4 inches (200 x 172 mm)

Gift of Janos Scholz.

1992.66

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Notes:

Verso is by another hand.
Watermark: none.
Formerly attributed to Annibale Carracci, Bologna 1560-1609 Rome.

Inscription:

Inscribed on verso at upper right in pen and brown ink, "Sennacherib Assyriorum[cut off] / extruxit".

Provenance:

Jean-François Gigoux (Lugt 1164); Otto Benesch, New York, 1941; Janos Scholz, New York (no mark; see Lugt S. 2933b).

Associated names:

Carracci, Annibale, 1560-1609, Formerly attributed to.
Gigoux, Jean François, 1806-1894, former owner.
Benesch, Otto, 1896-1964, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.

Bibliography:

Neumeyer, Alfred, and Janos Scholz. Drawings from Bologna 1520-1800. Oakland : Mills College Art Gallery, 1957, no. 30 (as Lodovico Carracci).
Italian Baroque Drawings from the Janos Scholz Collection. Columbia, S.C. : Columbia Museum of Art, 1961, no. 21.
Italienische Meisterzeichnungen vom 14. bis zum 18. Jahrhundert aus amerikanischem Besitz : Die Sammlung Janos Scholz, New York. Hamburg : H. Christians, 1963, no. 34.
Thirty Italian Landscape Drawings, 1500-1800, from the Collection of Janos Scholz. Hartford, Conn. : Austin Arts Center, 1970, no. 10.

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