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Italian School
16th century
Triton with Nymph and Another Marine Figure. Verso: Various Studies, Including a Design for a Frieze, an Architectural Study and a Torso
ca. 1540-1560
Pen and brown ink and wash, over black chalk or graphite, on paper; verso: pen and brown and black ink, brown-gray wash, over black chalk; red chalk (architectural study).
5 11/16 x 5 9/16 inches (145 x 141 mm)
Gift of Dr. Hans G. Hesslein.
1974.65
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Watermark: none.
Possible attribution includes Perino del Vaga (1501-1547); Taddeo Zuccaro (1529-1566).
Inscription:
Inscribed in pen and brown ink on parts of the composition, read from left to right and top to bottom, with the letters, "V, D, I, P, A, A, V, P [... and more]." Inscribed, perhaps by Hans Hesslein, on strip of cardboard, taken from old mount and now in the departmental file, "German or Suisse [sic] - 2nd half 16 century."
Provenance:
Hans G. Hesslein (1903-1979), Chappaqua, New York.
Associated names:
Perino, del Vaga, 1500 or 1501-1547, Possible attribution.
Zuccaro, Taddeo, 1529-1566, Possible attribution.
Hesslein, Hans G., 1903-1979, former owner.
Bibliography:
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Seventeenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1972-1974. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1976, p. 170.
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