Attributed to Alberto Alberti

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1526-1599

Woman Kneeling Before Altar Holding a Lamp. Verso: Design for an Elaborate Frame, with Part of a Separate Study with a Bull(?) on a Ledge at Left

ca. 1570

Pen and dark brown ink on blue paper; verso: pen and dark brown ink.

11 x 7 3/16 inches (279 x 183 mm)

Gift of János Scholz.

1989.60

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Notes:

Watermark: none.
Acquired as Italian, Sienese(?), 16th century.

Inscription:

Inscribed at upper right in pen and brown ink: "4[cropped]"; at lower left in black chalk: "C(or P)armiginetto(?)"; on verso at lower center, in pen and brown ink, by the artist, "larh[g]eza 3/3 (fraction)".

Provenance:

Anton Schmid, Vienna (see Lugt 2330b); Galerie Fischer, Zurich, where purchased in 1959 by János Scholz (1903-1993), New York (no mark; see Lugt Suppl. 2933b).

Associated names:

Anonymous, Italian School, 16th cent., Formerly attributed to.
Schmid, Anton, 1904-1991, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.

Bibliography:

Forni 1982, 215-18.

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Artist page:

Alberti, Alberto

School:

Italian

Century:

16th century